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WORLD
DESIGN
SCIENCE
DECADE
1965 - 1975
FIVE TWO YEAR PHASES OF A WORLD RETOOLING DESIGN
PROPOSED TO THE INTERNATIONAL UNION OF ARCHITECTS
FOR ADOPTION BY WORLD ARCHITECTURAL SCHOOLS
Phase I (1965) Document 3
COMPREHENSIVE THINKING
World Resources Inventory
Southern lllinois University
Carbondale, Illinois U.S.A,
Phase I, (1965) Document 3
COMPREHENSIVE THINKING
by: R. Buckminster Fuller
(Selected and edited by John McHale. )
World Resources Inventory
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, Illinois
U. S. A.
Copyright © R. Buckminster Fuller 1965
(Other volumes in this series are:
Phase I, (1963) Document 1: Inventory of World Rescurces,
Human Trends and Needs
by R. Buckminster Fuller and John McHale
Phase I, (1964) Document 2: The Design Initiative
by R. Buckminster Fuller)
World Resources Inventory Southern
Illinois University Carbondale, Illinois
U. S. A.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Permission to reprint various writings is gratefully acknowledged to the following
publishers:
Introduction to Halo:
Omni-directional Halo:
No More Second Hand God
Southern Illinois University Press
Carbondale, Illinois, 1963.
Wave Transformations of the City:
New York as a Focus of Energy
'The New York Guidebook'
Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1964.
The Prospect for Humanity:
Saturday Review
Anniversary Issue
August/September/October, 1964.
FOREWORD
This document, the third publication in the 'World Design Science Decade, 1965 1975 series has been prepared for the VIII World Congress of the International Union of
Architects to be held in Paris, July 1965. It should be read, therefore, in conjunction with the first
two documents in this series – particularly, Document Three, "World Design Initiative" by R.
Buckminster Fuller, which deals specifically with the ways in which students may assume the
design initiative and which also outlines the overall conduct of generalized design science
exploration.
Although this selection of the writings of Buckminster Fuller has been compiled primarily for the use of students participating in this world program, it may also
be useful to the general reader as an introduction to certain aspects of his design philosophy
which have tended to be overshadowed by his practical inventions and structural achievements.
The writings have been ordered in a manner which is intended to reflect the basic
orientation suggested in the title, Comprehensive Thinking. As will be seen, this order proceeds
from the whole to the particular – from considerations of how one may think about the larger
comprehensible whole system to how one may apply such 'whole systems' thinking to local and
particular aspects of the system in the planning of environment for man.
Though the language of some of the texts may seem difficult at first approach, it
should be borne in mind that one of our major problems in thinking today is the use of language
systems which still represent a fixed structurally compartmentalized world view. The terms
available to us for the expression of dynamic, rather than static, concepts are far from satisfactory.
Fuller's language is particularly representative of the 'transitional state (of the Western world)
between the older, traditional, noun-centered culture and its present day, changing, verb-centered
culture'. In his search for an adequately descriptive terminology he tends to employ concepts and
usages from many different fields juxtaposed in ways which may be unfamiliar to those more
customarily restrained within the vocabularies of particular disciplines.
Some brief notes on the specific texts may be useful at this point –
The Halo papers deal primarily with the exploration of the thinking process itself and
provide a conceptual 'general systems' model of thought, in terms of tuning, frequency
modulation, and feedback operation as analogies of this comprehensive process.
The Halo concept represents the further development of Fuller’s ’Energetic and
Synergetic Geometry’ towards a rational 'all energy behavior accounting system. An important
aspect of the geometry is that it allows of conceptual modelability of many dynamic energy
relationships whose behaviors are traditionally considered as not communicable in this way.
Citations of the congruence of many of Fuller's constructs and geometrical accounting procedures
have particularly increased in recent years, i.e. in tissue and virus structures, in bio-molecular
research generally, and in the study of fundamental particles
These recent insights extend and amplify the postulates of the geometry into the area
of a more generalized epistemological frame work.
Many similarities in conceptual approach already exists in various widely
separated areas of enquiry where such modelability is being sought, e. g. the ‘radex’
and ‘circumplex’ figures employed in mathematical analyses in social sciencel, the
‘biofilm’ approach in overall earth ecology’ structural relations in the electro-magnetic
spectrums. Though similar in ‘form’ to such approaches the Halo concept is a more
fundamental attempt to provide a ‘structural tool’ for the elucidation of the widest range
of complex phenomena relationships.
The Profile of the Industrial Revolution applies the conceptual organizing
principles discussed in Halo to the historical development of man’s accumulated
intellectual discoveries, their practical implementation into environ controlling technologies , and their cumulative effects on man’s overall ecology on earth.
Venus Proximity Day analyzes the ‘local’ aspects of various social, economic,
and political forces and the ways in which they may retard or accelerate comprehensive
planning. Within this context the role or architecture and environment planning is discussed in relation to industrialization.
An analogy is drawn which poses medicine as the prime discipline which
deals comprehensively with all the internal metabolic processing of man, and discusses
the new role of architecture and environment planning as the emergent comprehensive
discipline which would deal in similar overall fashion with all the external metabolic processing of man.
Wave Transformations of the City examines New York as an urban center in
terms of its cyclic growth patterns and discusses the ways in which we may analyze such
organic growth as dynamic frequency-modulated wave phenomena.
The Prospects for Humanity is an example of comprehensive long-range
thinking applied to the future extrapolation of various discernible trends in man's present
ecological patterning.
Geosocial Revolution represents a summation of all the above aspects of
comprehensive, historical, ‘local’, and long-range thinking, directed towards the
specific problems of man’s present global dilemmas and their solution, through
comprehensive redesign. and redirection of the world’s industrial tool complexes toward
the ‘livingry’ revolution. Our present political and ideological impasse in relation to
the various facets of the world geosocial revolution is discussed. It is emphasized that
science and technology as key formative processes favor no one political ideology as
against another and, indeed, that such formative forces alone maintain and forward man’s
physical well being,without direct benefit of supporting ideological constructs.
In this ordered sequence the reader may choose alternative routes. If he
wants to examine first the results of thinking comprehensively let him go first to Geosocial Revolution. If more concerned with the process of comprehensive thinking he
should begin with Halo and work through the series of following chapters.
1.“Mathematical
Thinking in the Social Sciences:’ Edited, F. L. Lazarsfield, Illinois,
Free Press, 1954.
2 F. L. Kunz, The Film of Living Beauty, Main Currents in Modern Thought, Vol. 18,Oct. ‘61.
N.Y. Acad. Sc.,Vo1.98,
3 Time: Its Breadth & Depth in Biological Rhythm, J. J. Grebe,
October, 1962.
The schematic diagram using the Halo conceptual structure to process man-shelter
environment as a functional system is included here as a rough example of the operational use of
the concept. The first major categories of the 'Universal Requirements of a Dwelling Advantage'
by Fuller1 are laid out in terms of magnitude, frequency of occurrence, etc. within the Halo
system. Students may from this example, be able to devise ways of using Halo as a conceptual
tool in organizing the interrelationships of many other problem areas. It might also be usefully
applied in this manner to material in other chapters of the present work.
In general, within our present program, each of the texts will be found to have
particular relevance to the comprehensive manner in which we must now approach world
planning. The major problems confronting our global society are no longer amenable to local
piecemeal solutions, but require such comprehensive confrontation. The statement of the
problems alone requires that we deal with our world as a whole process, as an overall ecological
system, within which man, his present requirements, and future trending must be viewed as part
of the ongoing evolutionary development.
How can the student learn to think comprehensively about such large-scale
processing? Little training in such thinking is given in our present educational systems. The
assumption of any degree of comprehensivity tends to be suspect, when extreme specialization
within the given range of academic divisions is still the prevailing education-al goal. Yet,
patently, no single human problem may be wholly solved within the province of any one
academic discipline; even 'local' problems require for their consideration and solution the
cooperative efforts of many such disciplines.
This selection, then, is offered as a guide towards such integrative thinking from the
writings of a man who has attempted throughout his life and work to think consistently in such a
comprehensive manner and to apply such thinking towards the practical solution of man's
environment problems.
An essential quality of Fuller's philosophical orientation is that he views man's entire
relationship to universe as inseparable from man himself. Universe and man are not individually
operating 'entities' but complementary and interactive aspects of a whole process. He defines
'universe' as 'the aggregate of all men's consciously apprehended and communicated experience'.
As total universe is perhaps the largest possible concept which man may attempt to comprehend,
this premise enables one to come to terms with such a concept through the statement of how we
may describe and measure it; Operationally such a premise enables us to deal with universe in
definable and conceptual ways.
This may still seem far from the kind of comprehensive thinking required in the
practical replanning of world facilities! However, the premise of 'universe' as a describable
structural pattern visible to, and experienced by us, at our local pattern level, is further refined by
Fuller through his postulation of the two corollary aspects of universe – the synergetic and
energetic. He defines synergy as 'the unique behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the
behavior of their respective subsystems events'. The 'energetic' aspect of universe represents the
more directly observable separated out local behavior pattern – the subsystems events. In thinking
about man's relationship to his environment this avoids undue reliance and emphasis on the local
and specialized pattern considered in isolation.
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Document Two, The Design Initiative, R. B. Fuller, S.I.U,1963, Carbondale, Illinois,
Further, in assuming an a priori structural order throughout, all physical events occur
as interrelated energy patterns-whether they are macro events at the level of galaxies, median
events as social patterns, building systems or rainstorms, or micro events at the level of the
atomic nucleus.
Within this scale, all man's environmental transactions – whether building, sleeping,
designing structures, or plowing a field – form part of the total energy system. As defined out of
his experience, it is a finite system in which energy may be neither lost nor gained, therefore the
process within the system is one of interrelated and regenerative cycles of energy transformation.
We cannot, in the strictest sense, deal with any local aspect of the system without taking into
account the regenerative and synergetic aspects of the whole. If then, in planning for man's
requirements we take cognizance of such observable 'universal' laws as have been found to
operate in common throughout the scale, it is more probable that such planning will be on the
right track.
For example, in the designing of 'shelter' for man we may note that in these
comprehensive terms we are locally rearranging certain locally occurring energy events
to our immediate and future advantage. The requirement 'shelter' viewed comprehensively is seen
not as traditional 'house' but as an 'instrument' which man may employ to adjust and control the
local energy patterns impinging upon him, as a 'valving' device which allows him to control,
shunt, or redirect environment energies in preferred forms of frequency. It is viewed as an
instrument, whose primary function is to allow man to 'tune in' on any preferred range of facilities
he may require. The end ’design', by such definition, tends not to be the obtrusive and important
feature but rather to be oriented towards functioning invisibly until called into direct play by the
occupant. This leads not only to a strictly scientific 'energy' accounting in the design of such
environment systems but returns the responsibility for the end-use control of the system back to
the individual user. Man is not to be provided with 'machines to live in', but with such
anticipatorily designed instruments as may allow him to adjust and control his environment to any
individually preferred manner of living.
There may be noted even in such a briefly outlined example, that the comprehensive
formulation of any particular aspect of man's environ relation does lead to a considerable
difference in the angle of attack on a given practical problem. The more comprehensive the
statement of the problem, the more adequate and universally applicable its indicated solutions.
Within such comprehensive assumptions of the integral nature of environment
processes, 'chemistry, biology, or art science technology, etc. ' and other separate field categories
are merely local labels for various ways of organizing our experience of universe. They are all
more or less convenient ways of packaging different aspects of an experience which is in itself
comprehensive – in which 'there are no discernible separate compartments in which nature
functions differently the one from the other'. Undue emphasis on locally unique aspects of the
system, or ways of organizing the individual local experience, may however obscure the
operation of the larger universal patterns. Designing or planning for man’s maximal advantage
requires that we remain comprehensively oriented towards the employment of such preferred
patterns as man has been able to elicit from universal behavior, i.e., scientific laws.
Fuller often refers to the completion of the table of atomic elements as the prime
’universal’ structural discovery of our time; one which gives man a full basic inventory of
energy configurations and possible combinations whose true functioning is invisibly located at
the submolecular level. From this time on 'design is more clearly seen as the visible ordering of
subvisible energy patterns with no value division between
natural and synthetic materials--synthesis is but a local rearrangement of the basic element
inventory. Similarly, with the new alloy and chemical strengths now available, function, in the
material ’form' sense may no longer be visibly determined. There can no longer be any
preconceived formal preference for particular materials and forming means. There can be no
preconceived end solutions but only the continued flexible response to man’s requirements
which may be viewed in themselves as dynamic energy relationships in varying degrees of
transformative change.
The needs of man within such a comprehensive orientation requires also to be
considered in the widest sense, as extending beyond his physically measurable well-being.
Though man may, in a sense, define Universe, no adequate statement of the phenomenon Man
himself has yet been made. Therefore, we have to design so as to accommodate those needs
beyond the physically demonstrable which may yet be crucial to his forward evolution.
In applying such comprehensive review to man's historical progress, Fuller points
out that he has only survived by anticipatory strategy – by consciously organizing and
transmitting his past experience to control and direct his future progress. His stored 'scientific'
experience evolves into technology which externalizes the principles discovered by mental
processing into tools which give him material survival advantage. All man’s technological
progress up to and including full industrialization forms part of his evolutionary pattern.
Industrialization is the reintegration of discovered scientific principles into a common
regenerative and universally applicable advantage for man. It is, in this sense, organically
inherent in the evolutionary direction of the human enterprise. The enormous survival advantage
and 'wealth' generated through industrialization is potentially inexhaustible as it depends
ultimately on the accumulated universal experience of all men ordered through science and
manifested in the regenerative technological cycling of materials and tools. Within this
regenerative process there can be no real depletion of wealth if the overall system is
comprehensively maintained and allowed to develop to its full global extent. Based on the
universal experience of all men it is inherently global in nature, requiring for its full operation,
access to the entire world's raw materials, and for its successful and economic operation, the
global redistribution of its products for the advantage of all men.
From this time forward, with the full development of industrialization as a prime
feature of his accumulated experience, man's evolution is no longer dependent only on locally
fortuitous environmental factors, natural selection or biological mutation. The capacity to
consciously modify his own forward evolutionary pattern comes increasingly within his own
power.
Our present world crises hinge directly upon this issue – the realization of man's
historical role and the cooperative ecological relationship and interdependence of the entire
human family.
Viewed comprehensively the central problem of this present critical period in man's
affairs is how to make the total world's resources, which now serve only 4e per cent of humanity,
serve 100 per cent through competent design – despite the continuing decrease of metal
resources per capita. The requisite designed application of our world industrial potential to this
problem is not implicit within the present trend of our major
social and political directions. It patently requires the assumption of a new social
initiative and leadership. This is the purpose of the World Design Science Decade 196575, through which the world students, initially in architecture and environmental
planning, will forcefully demonstrate their capacity to deal comprehensively with the
redesign of the world's major tool facilities and networks.
John McHale
Carbondale, Illinois
May, 1965
INTRODUCTION TO OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO
The useful but infrequently used word epistomology means science of the thought
processes. A total epistomological reorientation and, to the best of my knowledge, a unique
philosophical reconceptioning, regarding the regenerative constellar logic of the structuring of the
universe (both as a new cosmology and as a new cosmogony), seem to have followed gradually
upon my hypothetically-initiated querying regarding the possibility of formulating more
comprehensive and symmetrical statements regarding dawningly apparent natural laws. I intuited
in irrepressible degree that such a potential formulation might be accruing and harvestable in all
of our acceleratingly-reconsidered and progressively-integrated world-around, all-history
experience as now only diffusely inventoried at the middle decades of the twentieth century.
Out of multi-overlaid experience patternings there sometimes emerges an awareness
of what we may call a coincidence pattern – a localized thickening of points. These emergent
patterns of frequency congruences and concentrations display a unique configuration-integrity
which has up to now been so dilute in any one experience as to be only invisibly common to
many differentiated or special experiences, e. g., a pack of one hundred 4-inch by 5-inch file
cards each riddled with hundreds of different sized small holes. Each card appears to be
chaotically patterned with holes. However, when the cards are stacked with edges aligned three
holes in each card are vertically aligned; all others are obscured by blank spaces on one card or
another. A triangular pattern relationship of the light coming through three tubes in the stack of
cards is now lucidly conceptual. To such persistently emergent, uniquely mutual, coincidencepatterning relationships as the same triangle array of holes in each and every card we may apply
the term "pattern generalization" as used in a mathematical sense, in contradistinction to the word
"generalization" as used in the literary sense. The latter often means a too-ambitious subject range
which consequently permits only superficial considerations of any specific case data.
When the uniquely emergent generalized patternings become describable by us in
mentally regenerative conceptual terms, as completely divorced from any one of the specific
sensorial conditions of any of the special experiences out of which they emerged, yet apparently,
as seen in retrospect to have been persistent in every special case, then we may tentatively assume
such unique mutual pattern content to be a generalized conceptual principle, as for instance the
conception of tension as opposed to compression independent of textures, smells, colors, sound,
or size of any one tension-dominated experience.
It is in just such an epistomological process that we discover that size is not a,
generalized conceptual principle. Whether referring to the size of an object in respect to other
objects or the sizes of any one object's subdivision, size emerges exclusively as a frequency
concept uniquely differentiating-out each "specialized case." Generalized shape conceptioning is
independent of size. A triangle is a triangle independent of size.
When a second order of pattern distillation as a generalized conceptual principle
emerges, but this time exclusively from the emergently-induced co-ordinate consideration of a
plurality of generalized conceptual principles themselves, each
independent of any special case sensoriality, and in such a regeneratively-recognizable manner
of patterning as to provide a means of mathematical accounting and therefrom a tentative
forecasting capability, not only of generalized developments but also of special forward
experiences in the terms of specific sensorial conditions, and those calculated forecast conditions
materialize, and the forecasting capability is subsequently verified by recurrent experimental
demonstrations under controlled generalized conditions, then we may tentatively assume that we
have discovered at least a clause of "natural law. " For example, we tentatively assume that
radiation is generalized compression and that gravity is generalized tension and that tension and
compression are inseparable, precessionally-complimentary functions of universal structure.
Newly recognized generalizable principles seem emergent in unprecedentedly
accelerating accumulation as reported from the instrumentally extended range, velocity, and
exactitude of special case experiences in the most recent moments of history's scientific
venturing. The manywhere local probings have been meticulously organized and reported
regarding measurable relationships and rates of changing relationships throughout the vast
macrocosmic and exquisite microcosmic angle and frequency universe events both infra and
ultra to man's direct tuneability yet instrumentally tuneable and transformably readable within
regeneratively informative tolerance despite inherently limited observational exactitude.
Out of cumulative patterning overlays there emerges what seem to be generalized
principles apparently governing all associative and disassociative transformings and their
resultant regeneratively persistent hierarchy of constellar configurations. These hierarchies of
constellar configurations disclose in turn a hierarchy of dynamically symmetrical constellation
phases and their respective maxima-minima, asymmetric and complimentary, accommodative
transformabilities which are apparently permitted within an omnirational, omnidirectional,
omniequi-economic, energy-accounting, co-ordinate system of universe. This omnirational,
arithmetical-geometrical accountability is of such sublime simplicity in contrast to the awkward
"mathematics" of all known yesterdays as to have occasioned an almost universal incredibility
and nonconsideration of its potential significance though it has been in disclosure for one quarter
of a century.
This co-ordinate system may be described as an isotropic vector system; that is, a
generalized Avagadron system in which the energy conditions and relative quanta ratios are
everywhere the same yet multi-differentiable in local patterning aspects, which aspects are
interchangeably emergent without altering the comprehensive energy equilibrium or its unitary
totality as implicit in the Law of Conservation of Energy by which it is assumed that energy may
be neither created nor lost.
The discovered co-ordinate system is apparently governed by generalized laws,
some of whose mathematical equatability I have been allowed not only to discern (as far as I
know for the first time by anyone) but also to codify and translate into unique structural
realizations. This codification governs the total co-ordinate abundance ratios of the unique
pattern aspect relationships of uniquely irreducible co-operative function aspects of locally
nonsimultaneous events and their equilibrious pattern totality.
Discovery of the primary and corollary laws of constantly co-ordinate relative
abundance of pattern function-aspects of totality as an omnirational regularity governing all local
patternings of universe as a minimum-maximum family of complexedly complementary yet
uniquely identifiable conceptual function-patterning relationships followed upon intuitive
formulations of the seemingly most comprehensive self-querying question I was capable of
propounding to myself regarding possible detectable pattern
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significances accruing to progressive life experience integrations and overlays.
That most comprehensive question was, "What do you mean by the word 'universe'?"
"If you cannot answer, you had best abandon use of the word 'universe' for it will have no
meaning." My intuitively-adopted rules for self-questioning and answering were that the answer
must be made exclusively from man's experience patterns. I learned many years later that the
Nobel physicist Percival Bridgeman had identified this same rule adopted by Einstein as
"operational procedure," subsequently a much-abused phrase. My answer (or discard of the word
"universe" as a communication tool) was operationally inherent: "Universe is the aggregate of all
consciously apprehended and communicated (to self or relayed to others) experience of man." If
my finite answer holds against all specific experience challenges as being comprehensively
anticipatory and adequate, the universe is finite, and all its components definable. Each life as we
know it is definitive, i. e., consists of a plurality of terminable, ergo definite, experiences,
beginning with each awakening and terminating with each surrender to sleep (no man can prove
upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went earlier to sleep, or that aught else which
he thinks he recollects is other than a convincing dream). The intermittent beginnings and endings
of conscious experience constitute an aggregate of definitive experiences--and the aggregate is
therefore finite.
In the recent moments of historical experience, men as scientists adopted the law of
conservation of energy: as predicated upon the sum total experience of physicists which recalled
no contradiction to this hypothesis. They thus accomplished a finite packaging of all physical
behaviors of physical universe as predicated also upon the hypothesis that all physical phenomena
are entirely energetic.
By embracing all the energetic phenomena of total experience, the scientists secured
a synergetic advantage for all energy accounting and prospecting. "Synergy" means "behavior of
whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of any of its components or by any sub-array of its
components.” Corollary to synergy is the law of the whole system. Systems are definite as they
return upon themselves in a plurality of directions, ergo have concave inwardness and convex
outwardness, ergo inherently subdivide universe into mutually exclusive definitive macro and
micro entities. The law of whole system states that, given the sum of whole system pattern
conception its component behaviors may be differentially discovered and predictably described as
required by the already evidenced behavior functions implicit in the a priori-definitive experience
and conceptioning of any given experience-verified system. Thus by the law of whole system as
corollary of synergy, the component behaviors of systems may be predictably differentiated as
primary and secondary componential sub-divisions of whole system and then progressively
isolated and locally reconsidered for further dichotomy.
Adopting synergetic advantage, science hypothesized that the physical portion of
universe is energetic and finite. Under this hypothesis Einstein wrote his equation of physical
universe as E=MC2. This said that the total of local system energy is the product of all concentric
local systems of energy’s self-interfered, shunt-holding patterns (M for mass) as multiplied by the
entirely noninterfered local omnidirectional velocity of surface growth of an omnidirectional,
outward-bound spherical wave of radiant energy (in terms of second power of radial wave
module frequency growth rate).
In Einstein's formula mass constitutes all the patterns of precessionally self-interfered
and concentrically shunted, ergo locally articulated and locally and periodically regenerative
holding patterns of energy. This is also to say that M equals all the locally complex, concentric,
self-associative, unique holding patterns of all
energy, and C2 equals all the eccentrically disassociative individual patternings of all energy (C
being the radial or linear speed of radiant energy, which is approximately 186, 000 mps).
But physical science lacked the experience which might have persuaded it to
hypothesize what all universe is. Physical science therefore restricted its comprehensive
accounting strategy to the special case of definitive isolations within the physical portion of
universe. This left the remainder of all experiences, no matter how earnestly and meticulously
reconsidered, outside the definitive portion of comprehended experiences of universe, i. e., the
physicists said all that is not physically encompassed as E=MC2 is metaphysical.
However, by my definition of universe, all that was relegated to metaphysical
nebulosity is now embraced by finite universe along with the physically energetic wherefore all
the hitherto "inexact sciences" may become rigorously defined, enjoying equatable treatability at
optimum degree of determinability.
I have found a general law of total synergetical structuring, which we may call "The
Law of Structure." This law discloses that ”universe" of total man experience may not be
simultaneously recollected and reconsidered, but may be subdivided into a plurality of locally
tuneable event foci or "points" of which a minimum of four positive and four negative points are
required as a "considerable set"; that is, as a first finite subdivision of finite universe. (This
fourness coincides with basic quanta strategy.) All experience is reduced to nonsimultaneously
"considerable sets” and holds irrelevant to consideration all those experiences which are either
too large and therefore too infrequent, or too miniscule and therefore too frequent, to be tuneably
considerable as pertaining to the residual constellation of approximately congruent recollections
of experiences. A ”considerable set" inherently subdivides all the rest of irrelevant experiences
of universe into macro-cosmic and micro-cosmic sets immediately outside or immediately within
the considered set of experience foci.
There are two inherent twilight zones of "tantalizingly almost-relevant recollections"
spontaneously fed back in contiguous frequency bands--the macro-twilight and the microtwilight.
It is a corollary of this first subdivision of universe that a considerable set is a locally
definitive system of universe returning upon its considerability in all circumferential directions
and therefore has an inherent withinness and withoutness, which two latter differentiable
functions inherently subdivide all universe into the two unique extremes of macro and micro
frequencies.
The "Law of Structure” says that "local structure is a set of frequency associable
(spontaneously tuneable) recollectable experience relationships, having a regenerative constellar
patterning as the precessional resultants of concentrically shunted periodic self-interferences, or
coincidences of its systematic plurality of definitive vectorial frequency, wave length and angle
inter-relationships."
The precessionally regenerative concentricity of structure is antientropic, and
evolutes toward optimally economic local compressibility and symmetry. (See Dymaxion World
of Buckminster Fuller, by Robert Marks, for Fuller's Law of omni-optimally-economic,
omnitriangulated-point-system, symmetry relationships and relative abundance of frequency
modulated multiplicative subdivision of unitary local systems; i. e., M (mass) means: All the
universe's self-interfering complexes having
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concentrically self-precessing, local-focal-holding patterns resulting in locally regenerative
constellar associabilities as positive-outside-in structures. CD (radiation) means: All the
universe's nonself-interfering complexes having eccentrically inter-precessing, omnidirectionally
diffusing patterns resulting in comprehensively degenerative negative limits of dissociabilities as
negative (inside-out) de-structures. )
In the chapters on Energetic-Synergetic Geometry I identify second powering with
the point population of any one radiant (eccentric) or gravitational (concentric) wave systems
circumferential arrays of any given radius stated in terms of frequency of modular subdivisions of
the circumferential arrays radially-read systems’ concentricity layering; third powering with the
total point population of all the successive wave layers of the system; fourth powering with the
interpointal domain volumes; fifth and sixth powering as products of multiplication by frequency
doublings and treblings, etc. The Dopler effect or wave reception frequency-modulation caused
by motions of the observer and the observed are concentric wave system fourth and fifth
powering accelerations.
The Dopler effect is usually conceived of as an approximately "linear" experience.
"You," the observer, stand beside a railway track (which is a "linear" model); a swift train
approaches with whistle valve held open (at constant frequency pitch as heard "on board" by the
engineer "blowing" the whistle). The whistle sound comes to you at approximately 700 mph, but
the train is speeding toward you at 100 mph. The train's motion reduces the interval between the
successive wave emissions, which in
Fig. 5. Omnidopler Effect
effect decreases the wave length which gives it "higher" pitch as heard at your remote and
"approached” hearing position. After the train goes by, the train runs away from each successive
wave emission, thus increasing the interval between wave "crests" and therefore lengthening the
waves, which apparently "lowers” the pitch as you hear it but not as others elsewhere may hear it.
This is pure observational "relativity." But the real picture of the Dopler effect is not linear; it is
omnidirectional.
The Dopier effect may also be explained in omnidirectional, experience-patterning
conceptionality which is more informative than the familiar linear conceptioning of the railroad
train and "you, at the crossing." "You" were flying in an air transport which exploded, and
because of the sudden change in pressure differential between your in'ards and your out'ards at
high altitude you personally have just been "exploded" into many separate parts receding from
one another at high velocity. A series of secondary explosions follows from somewhere in the
center of the galaxy of exploding debris, as one item after another of the late airplane's explosive
cargo is reached by progressive local conflagration-heat concentrations. The sound waves of the
successive
explosions speed after your receding parts amongst which are your two ear diaphragms as yet
"stringily" interconnected with your exploding brain cells, which "hear" the explosion's sound
waves first at low pitch. But as your parts explode from one another at a decelerating rate
because of air friction, etc., the waves of remote explosion sounds "shorten” and pitches go "up."
Now consider many separate, nonsimultaneous, secondary explosions of your various exploding
parts all of varying intensities of energetic content and in varying degrees of remoteness and
realize that the decelerations and ac-celerations of Dopier effects will render some of the
explosive reverberations infra and some ultra to your tuning range limits of hearing, so that the
sum total of heard events provides very different total conceptioning as heard from various
points in the whole galaxy of exploding events whose separate components would tend to new
grouping concentrations.
The Halo discovered in the next chapter is that of an omnidirectional, complex,
high-frequency, Dopier-effected hypothetical-zone experience in an omnidirectional universal
maelstrom of nonsimultaneous near and far explosions and their interaccelerating and refractive
wave frequency patternings. Several of these fundamental concepts are also repeated several
times in Halo, being reintroduced in various complex associations each of which provides unique
discoveries.
In order to generate a spontaneous comprehension of the significance of the thoughts
expressed in "Halo," which now follows, the latter essay will open with a swiftly martialed
digest of the epistomological concepts of this introduction.
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OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO
Synergy means behavior of integral aggregate systems unpredicted by behaviors of any of
their components or subassemblies of their components. Chrome-nickel-steel has a higher tensile, or
integrally self-cohering, strength than the sum of the separate tensile strengths of its alloyed elements.
Synergetic behaviors are commonplace throughout chemistry and biochemistry but so unfamiliar to man's
visible spectrum range events that the word syn-ergy, though the equal in age of its companion word
energy, is popularly unfamiliar.
The lack of popular and academic familiarity with the word synergy, which in the English
language alone connotes the behavior of whole systems unpredicted by behavior of their components,
means that man in his everyday social world has not been in need of this word, which in turn tells us that he
lacks this fundamental conception in his conscious thinking processes. He ascribes all behaviors
unpredicted by his statistical probabilities to ”luck" or miracle. This particular gap in man's everyday
fundamental thinking and common sense accounts for many fallacies in his spontaneous reflexing and
contemporary behavior. Ignorant of the regenerative significance of synergy, man is vulnerable to degenerative feed-back consequences in his comprehensive determinations.
Universe is the comprehensive integral-aggregate system embracing all the separate integralaggregate systems of all men's consciously apprehended and communicated experiences. The total of
experiences is integrally synergetic. Universe is the comprehensive a priori synergetic integral. Universe
continually operates in comprehensive, co-ordinate patternings which are transcendental to the sensorially
miniscule apprehension and mental comprehension and prediction capabilities of mankind, consciously and
inherently preoccupied as he is only with special ) local and nonsimultaneous pattern considerations.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries inventory man’s progressively invented words for
communicable identification of all his evolving experience cognitions. Dictionary is a collective concept.
Universe is the ultimate collective concept--i. e., the collection of all intelligible, inherently separate
evolutionary event aspects which latter apparently occur exclusively and only through differentiating
considerations which progressively isolate the components of whole and inclusive sets, super-sets, and subsets of generalized conceptioning in retrospectively abstracted principles of relationships. The generalized
comprehensive principles of interrelationships progressively discovered as governing our subsidiary
generalized principles are embraced by our finition of universe.
The word con-sider-ation comes from sidus, the Latin for star, the focal point of an as yet
nondifferentiated concentration of events--ergo, con-sider-able, or con-stellar patterning, means an
exploratory grouping of "stars" or complex idea entities that seem to man's limited tuneability to stand out
together.
Neither the set of all-experiences nor the set of all-the-words which describe them nor the set
of all the generalized conceptual principles harvested from the total of experiences are either instantly or
simultaneously reviewable. "What was that man’s name?" Our answering service may take five seconds,
five minutes, five hours, five
days, or five generations to reply. Our conscious orderly reconsideration of our variable lag
experiences discloses subconsciously coordinated regularities of feed-back rates governing the
recall phenomena.
All experiences are finitely furnished with differentiated cognitions, recognitions
and comprehensions. The finite furniture consists of widely-ranging degrees of comprehensive
constellar complexities. A wide range of time investment magnitudes must be assigned to the
respective considerations of the multitude of different constellar, experience-pattern
comprehensions. We cannot read simultaneously all the words in the dictionary; yet the
dictionary is a finite collection of finite word entities each in turn consisting of collections of
finite letter symbol entities.
Universe is finite because it is the sum total of finitely furnished experiences. The
comprehensive set of all-experiences synergetically constituting universe discloses an
astronomically numbered variety of sub-set event-frequency rates and their respective rates of
conceptual tuneability comprehension. It takes entirely different lengths of time to remember or
"look up" different names or past event facts. Universe, like the dictionary, though integral is
ipso facto nonsimultaneously recollectable and, there-fore, as with the set of all the words of the
dictionary, is nonsimultaneously considerable and therefore is also nonsimultaneously
reviewable, ergo is synergetically incomprehen-sible, yet progressively revealing.
The age-long fallacial propensity which has frustrated adult man's adequate
conceptioning of universe is that of spontaneously assuming that universe must consist of a
simultaneously unit conceptuality – ergo, of simultaneous geometry or shape, i. e., a
simultaneous structure. What is the shape of the universe? What are its boundaries? These are
unitary, simultaneous static questions. They have no logical answer for universe though finite is
a nonsimultaneous structure. Children know this better than their parents through innate
conceptioning as yet unspoiled by erroneous logic. They remember the juggler putting a
simultaneous array in the sky with nonsimultaneous tosses. The childhood representational
pictures depict their dynamically arrayed concept of the "whole world" inventory, of mentally
juggled arrays of nonsimultaneously occurring experiences agglomerated without any intended
geometrical interrelationships. In all lands the children's spontaneous pictures contain "the"
house, trees, birds, dogs, flowers, grass, clouds, stars, the sun and the moon. The parents say,
"Darling, a nice picture, but we don't have both the moon and the sun at the same time." The
parents are wrong--both the sun and moon coexist at all times whether temporarily co-visible or
not. The parents' rationale has been damaged so that it can only consider and associate those
items which are simultaneously grouped in unitarily static array. Yet in equal illogic the parents
keep on attempting to see the universe of nonsimultaneity in unitary, static and simultaneous
geometrical array as a "thing"--a very big "thing" --the biggest "thing."
It is in evidence that universe, as the co-ordinate integral of all-experience is finite
yet nonsimultaneously recollectable--ergo, unitarily unpatternable--ergo, conceptually
unthinkable – ergo, undefinable. This is to say undefinable does not mean infinite or un-finite. It
means that--definability – de-finite is a sub-set of finite--ergo, pattern definition is a subdivision
of finite-yet-unitarily-undefinable universe. The definable conception is therefore the first
thinkable sub-set functioning of universe.
There are metaphysical yet cogent early words emergent from the limbo of
prehistory's quasi-logical accounting continuities which show that intellect has long been aware
of the DEfunction. For instance, DI-Vine, DI-, DE- (of Di-chotomy – cell division
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--regenerate through bi-multiplication). The concept of a DE-VINING DE-ITY, i.e. the defining
deity, the great intellectual capability of differentiating discernment, probably originated in the
same conceptual logic as did DI-VIDE out of DI-VISION--to see the whole as functionally
differentiable yet only locally and progressively conceptual. In the differential calculus this
becomes the delta--Δ δ D--of fundamental differentiation.
Differentiable function x in respect to y. Functions do not occur exclusively of one
another. Functions occur only as inherently co-operative and accommodatively varying subaspects of synergetically transforming wholes. MULTIPLICATION accomplished only by
DIVISION. Universe expanding through progressively differentiating considerations.
Definable thought patterning deals only progressively (by re-scanning) with the local
event foci of experienced patternings of universe. Definable thought though constituting
systematic consideration and orderly reconsideration, which returns omni-directionally upon itself
in local conceptual relationships in only a subdivision of finite, which is universe, which is
inherently inconceivable unitarily.
Inconceivability does not mean infinite anymore than does invisible. Finite is unique
to universe because it means complete, but not terminal. The locally definable entity is not
complete, for it does not exist by itself. All experiments show that local entities are inherently
both entropic and antientropic, i.e., all local systems are always intimately linked with the rest of
universe by measurable import and export pattern transactions. Definable entities are uniquely
functioning components of universe. Universe is the minimum as well as the maximum closed
system of omni-interacting, precessionally transforming, complementary transactions of
synergetic regeneration. Local perpetual motion systems are impossible, since universe is the
minimum regenerative set of perpetually intercomplimentary transformative functioning.
Systematic conceptioning and recollected conceptioning, both universal and local,
which progressively traces, relates, and compares nonsimultaneously observable locally
functioning entities is self-disciplined. The self-discovered capability to communicate to others
by the recollectable and pictured word-tool developed a co-ordinate memory of all men.
Generalized systematic conceptuality's omni-directional relationships are only
angularly configured and are independent of size or dimension. No man has ever "seen" outside
himself. His brain is a multi-frequency (four sensory ranges) scanning (TV) integrator,
continually operating in co-ordination with a multitude of memory (kinescope taped) TV
scanners. The whole array of new and memory TVs is frequency monitored by an angular and
frequency modulated pattern commonality scoring and score-predicting conceptual co-ordination
capability. The TV co-ordinating conceptual capability includes a score-guessing and score-guess
testing faculty, as well as a strategic-tests-contriving-pattern considerator, all of which conceptual
patterning proclivities are self-started and regenerated by synergetical intellection.
The conceptual process is never static. Thinking does not consist of the insertion of
invented images into an otherwise empty vacuum-tube chamber called brain. Thinking is the selfdisciplined process of preoccupied consideration of special-case sets of feed-back answers
selected out of the multitude of high frequency alternating transceiver brain traffic. This traffic
consists of omniexperience processed answers to present or past questions, formulated either by
the conscious or subconscious co-ordinating initiative of the individual or possibly by the
individual overlapping generation of group
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memory.
Because of the varying depths of storage of past experiences, some answers come
back swiftly, some slowly. The reeollectability rates are unpredictable. The returning-answers
traffic is heterogeneous. Many answers come to questions we have forgotten that we have asked,
Conceptually systematic tuning of questions and feed-back answers, comparatively considered in
the brain, results in temporary, tuneably valved exclusion of all other incoming signals traffic.
Discreet tuning admits consideration only of those recollections which are clearly relevant to the
omnidirectional rounding out of systematic comprehension of the special case set of events
intuitively selected for momentary focal consideration. Thinking consists then of a selfdisciplined, deferment of conscious consideration of any incoming information traffic other than
that which is lucidly relevant to the experience intuited quest for comprehension of the
significance of the emergent pattern under immediate priority of consideration.
The thinking process results in varying degrees of lucidity of the arrayed residue of
focal event patterns uniquely consequent to the disciplined deferment of irrelevancies. Thinking
is a putting-aside, rather than a putting-in discipline, e. g., putting aside the tall grasses in order »
isolate the trail into informative viewability. Thinking is FM--frequency modulation--for it results
in tuning-out of irrelevancies as a result of definitive resolution of the exclusively tuned-in or
accepted feed-back messages' pattern differentiability. As the exploring navigator picks his
channel between the look-out detected rocks, the intellect picks its way between irrelevancies of
feed-back messages. And as the navigator realizes secondarily that the channel winds between
two sets of rocks, the rocks to starboard and the rocks to port, intellect also discovers secondarily
that all the irrelevancies of feed-back information have inadvertently fallen into two main classes,
as follows:
1. The class of all the finitely-furnished experience events which are too large and too
infrequent to have considerable frequency significance in-tuneability in respect to the modular
magnitude ranges under consideration.
2. The class of all the finitely-furnished experience events too miniscule of wave
module and of too high frequency to in any way he significantly tuneable into the considered
spectrum range.
Each class has its twilight zone of almost (or tantalizingly almost) relevant which, if
we were to accelerate our consideration rate, might attain considerability with-in the tactical
limits of assignable capital-life-time intuitively budgetable to such consideration. Between the
twilight zones of almost-too-large and almost-too-small to be relevantly considerable lies a zone
of lucidly tuneable relevancy of the experienced event recollections.
Because of the incessant wheeling about of humans first in the womb, then in the
baby carriage, then on foot, in the auto and ship and plane roundabout a spinning earth in a
spinning solar system within an involuting-evoluting, spirally spinning galaxy, totally inventoried
experiences are inherently omni-directional when considered as the sum of observational
orientations. Universe (as all-experience) is inherently omni-directional in its observational
orientations--ergo, the temporary putting-aside of the two classes of irrelevancies requires an
omnidirectional putting aside which differentiates as an outwardly dismissed macrocosmic
disposition of the too-large and too-infrequent con-ceptual informations and an inwardly
dismissed residue set of all the too-miniscule and too-frequent events--ergo, the lucidly tuned in,
residually considerable set of event-foci
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lies with a spherical zone between the thus separated twilight zones of almost-consider-able
miniscules and bigs, respectively. As a consequence, the residual set of tuned-in experience
event-foci are caught in a spherical zone trap of feed-back recollected considerability appropriate
to systematic reviewing and possible definition.
Out of nonsimultaneously conceptual, yet finite, universe has emerged a definitively
conceptual geometry, not a geometry invented by the conceiver but an a priori geometry
discovered by the re-considerer as a residual relevancy constellation.
We thus discover that systematic recollection and thought-out definition lies within a
geometrically conformed zone which inherently subdivides the universe into distinctly separate
microcosm and macrocosm, which two are, however, only meagerly isolated from one another by
a local constellation of considerable relationships. No matter how meager the network of zonal
relationships of the residually considered star set of holding-pattern relevancy, the latter
shuntingly impedes in some degree the velocity of omnidirectional universal information traffic,
forced by geometrical surroundment to pass through the zonal constellation. If a squadron of
boats enters a river's mouth and passes upstream and anchors, their presence and the friction of
their hulls will mildly
retard or choke the river's flow. Thus do the constellation of considered events mildly choke the
otherwise unimpeded universal and geodesically-inter-routed communication traffic which they
have separated into the two (micro-macro) realms. As Heisenberg shows in his principle of
ultimate indeterminism the physical act of measurement always
alters the behavior of the measured phenomenon. In the same way we show here that the thinking
process inherently alters the fundamental patterning of universal thought-about interrelationships.
We thus discover that thought and its tuneably differentiating local definitions
constitute the f.irst subdivision of finite universe. Ergo finite universe is something greater than
any definable local system's zone of constellar, geometrical lucidity which zone is itself
secondarily definable by its disparity of concavity of withinness and convexity of withoutness.
In a consideration four is the minimum number of stars having an inherent
arrangement of within-ness and without-ness. Therefore we discover next that the minimum
conceptually-considerable generalized-experiences-set, affording macro-micro separation of
universe, is a set of four local event-foci. These four stars have an inherent sixness of
interrelationships. This four-foci, six-relationship set is definable as the tetrahedron. This
minimum fourness of relevant-frequency, ergo thinkable "stars" coincides with quantum
mathematics requirement of four unique quanta numbers per each uniquely considerable
"particle, " quanta are inherently tetrahedronal.
In the prime dichotomy of universe into a thinkable tetrahedronaI zone between
unconsiderable irrelevancies, which in turn requires a secondary zonal separation into macromicro momentarily unthinkable cosmoses, it becomes evident that the tetrahedronal zone itself
introduces a tertiary dichotomy – into the two inherent twilight zones of almost considerable
bigness and almost considerable littleness, respectively.
We find a fourth-stage dichotomy of universe when we consider that the big and little
twilights each respectively are again also comprised of two tetrahedra as minimal requirement,
one as the concave inward tetrahedron and the other as the convex outward tetrahedron.
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We next, fifthly, discover that the positive-negative (convex-concave) tetrahedra
constitute only the minimum functional dichotomy of finite universe, resulting in a minimum
portion of the universe disposed in the microcosm and a maximum portion of universe assigned
to the macrocosm. Among geometrical systems a tetrahedron encloses the minimum volume with
the most surface and a sphere the most volume with the least surface. An approximately spherical
polyhedronal zonal dichotomy of finite universe by a spherical array of considered relevancies
provides the minimum portion of sum totally finite universe assigned to the macrocosm and the
maximum relative portion of finite universe assignable to the microcosm.
The finite Withoutness,
Macrocosm Irrelevancy
We may say that the minimum zonally defined withinness conformation is
tetrahedronal and the minimum zonally defined withoutness is spherical. Therefore, the most
extensive lucidly conceptual and definable recollected-experience zone range lies between a
tetrahedronal "withinness" twilight and a spherical "withoutness" twilight, beyond which are the
nontuneable (1) outwardness and (2) inwardness--the subtracted Euler's twoness from
nonconceptual finiteness which permits conceptual de-finiteness or definition of cognition.
Because the permitted conceptua1ity involves a unit expenditure from universe of a
de-finite twoness, unit conceptuality must have a finite twoness penditure value, ergo prime
conceptual unity acquires an inherent value of two. Unity is inherently plural. -Unity is always
divisible as twoness, or fourness, or sixness, of inherent minimum relationships. The alternate
relative proportions of finite universe's micro-macro magnitude limits of definitive dichotomy as
tetrahedronal minimum or spherical maximum introduce an inherently alternative propensity of
universal finite accountability whose alternative eccentric-concentric reciprocity of
omnidifferential-lag-rate compensations inherently propagate and regenerate preferably
considered universal evolution accomplished by omnidirectionally expansive-contractive wave
propagating oscillations.
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Frequency of. modular subdivision of vectorial lines are ratioed to cyclic increments
of time realizing the accomplished velocity. Unity is the full circle sweep around an axis. Angles
are fractions of cyclic unity. Frequency means a discreet plurality of cycles within a given greater
cyclic increment. Angle means a fraction of one cycle. Angle is therefore subcyclic-unity, while
frequency is plural unity. Angle is less than finite cyclic unity. Frequency is greater than finite
cyclic unity. All physical realizations have relative-size, i. e., dimensionality. The phenomenon
size consists of frequency modulated linear (i. e. vectorial) dimension. Angular phenomena being
sub-finite cyclic unity, or zero frequency, may be independent of size. Generalized angular or
triangular or tetrahedronal conceptioning may be independent of size.
The three angles of one face of a triangle always add up to 180º as a phenomenon
independent of the relative dimensional size of the triangles. 180º is one-half definitive cyclic
unity. Every triangle has two faces--its obverse and reverse. Unity is two. So we note that the
angles of both faces of a triangle add up to 360º. The sum of the external angles of two triangles’
obverse and reverse faces is 720º. The sum of the external angles of a tetrahedron is 720º. The
sum of two triangles' external angles is equivalent to one tetrahedron.
The relative size of a triangle is a secondary, observer induced consideration and
depends upon the frequency modulated edge increments of the triangle as ratioed to some other
physical experience entity.
Angles of tetrahedra always add up to 720º independent of size. The angles of a cube
always add up to 2160º independent of the cube's size. A tetrahedron is definite yet independent
of size. All angularly modulated definite geometrical systems or figures are independent of size.
Relationships which have definite integrity and independence of size are
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conceptual principles of abstract thought independent of physical realization.
The difference between the sum of all the angles around all the vertices of any
system and the total number of the vertices times 360º (as angular unity) is 720º which equals
two unities. The sum of the angles of a tetrahedron always equal 720º. The tetrahedron may be
identified as the 720º differential between any definite local geometrical system (Greek solid)
and finite universe.
A line has two vertices with angles around each of its vertexial ends equal to 0º. The
sum of these angles is 0º. The sum of the vertices (2) times unity (360º) is 720º. The remainder
of 0º from 720º is 720º or two unities, or one tetrahedron., Q.E.D..
A triangle has three vertices. The sum of the externally viewed angles around each is
120º of which 60º is on the obverse side of each vertex of the triangle; for a triangle, like a line, if
it exists, is an isolatable system always having its positive and negative aspects. The angles of oband re-verse triangles add up to 360º. The triangle is three vertices times 360º=1080º which minus
360º (sum of triangles' angles)=720º Q. E. D.
Two triangles' external angles make one convex tetrahedron or 720º. The coincident
concave tetrahedron’s angles add up to 720º. The positive and negative tetrahedra always coexist
+720º-720º=0º.
Four vertices equal one positive tetrahedron; therefore, one positive conceptual
convex tetrahedron is +720º and the difference between it and finite universe is one-negative
nonconceptual concave tetrahedron. Neither the positive nor the negative tetrahedron may occur
without the other.
A zero tetrahedron is vector equilibrium, is universe.
Experience is inherently discontinuous and islanded and each special experience
represents a complex of generalized principles operative in special or limited size (i.e.,
dimension, i.e., frequency) modulated realization.
Brower's mathematical theorem states that if any number of points on a plane are
stirred around an x amount on cessation of the stirring, one of the points may be shown to have
been the center point of the stirring--and never to have moved in relation to the others. In order
to be "stirred," these points must have multi-dimensionality and the cluster of stirred points must
have obverse and reverse sides. Therefore, the obverse-reverse sides must each have visible
points that were the centers of the stirring and, short though the distance between the obversereverse surface neutral center points, the short line between the obverse-reverse visible central
points' obverse-reverse poles constitutes a neutral axis of the system of points and isolates two
points for axial function-ing in every layer of both polar zones of every point system swarm.
Pauli's exclusion principle verifies that each of the stirred points in Brower's theorem and the
point which did not move have their inherently separate counter part points which discloses both
the neutral axis formed by the two points that do not move and the obverse and reverse sets of
moving points. Thus, we discover that even a ”points" angular topological difference between its
definiteness and finiteness is 720º.
There is no phenomenon "solid matter"; therefore there may not be a ”solid" sphere,
nor a "solid" surface sphere. All spheres consist of a high frequency constellation of eventpoints, all of which are approximately equidistant from one central event
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"point." All the points in the surface of a sphere may be interconnected. If most economically
interconnected, they will subdivide the surface of the sphere into an omnitriangulated spherical
web matrix. As the frequency of triangular subdivision of a spherical constellation of
omnitriangulated points approaches subvisibility the difference between the sums of the angles
around all the vertex points and the numbers of vertices when multiplied by 360º remains
constantly 720º which is the sum of the angles of two times unity (of 360º). The sum of the
angles of a tetrahedron, regular or irregular, is always 720º, just as the sum of the angles of a
planar triangle is always 180º. We may state two laws which say: (1) the sum of the surface
angles of any polyhedron equals Vn multiplied by 360 minus one tetrahedron; (2) the sum of the
angles of any polyhedron (including a sphere) is always evenly divisible by one tetrahedron. We
may also say that: Where unity (1) equals 360º, 180º equals one-half unity (1/2) and that 720º
equals two times unity (2); therefore, we may identify a triangle as one-half unity and a tetrahedron as two unities (1/2), (2).
The calculus assumes that a plane is infinitesimally congruent with the surface of a
sphere at the point of the plane's tangency of the sphere. The calculus and the spherical
trigonometry therefore also assumes that the sums of the angles around any point of any sphere
are always 360º. The demonstration thus far made discloses that the sums of the angles around
all the vertices of a sphere will always be 720º or one tetrahedron less than the sum of the
vertices times 360º, ergo, one basic assumption of the calculus is invalid.
In review, this chapter shows that the phenomenon "infinity" of the calculus is
inherently finite. Universe equals the aggregate of men's consciously apprehended and
communicated experiences. By my definition, universe is nonsimultaneous but finite because all
experiences begin and end and being terminal are finite; ergo, universe as the sum of finites is
finite. The first subdivision of nonsimultaneous universe is effected by a local system which
divides the universe into three finite parts: the portion of universe outside, the portion of the
universe inside, and the system. We find local spherical systems of universe are definite rather
than infinite as presupposed by the calculus' erroneous assumption of 360 degreeness of surface
plane azimuth around every point on a sphere. Nonsimultaneous universe is finite but
conceptually undefinable; local systems are definable. We discover that universe is finite and a
local system is definite and the definite local system plus one tetrahedron (or two unities) equal
finite universe. The difference between universe and any local system is always one tetrahedron.
Every local system may be subdivided into whole tetrahedra.
If we combine, first, the fact of Van't Hoff's discovery that all the organic chemical
compounds are structurally cohered in the terms of the tetrahedra's four vertexes and, secondly,
the fact of Linus Pauling's X-ray defraction implemented discovery that all the metallic elements
thus far experimentally analyzed combine in non-vertexially interlinked tetrahedronal structures
and, thirdly, the facts which I have disclosed in this and the preceding pages we may well
conclude that it is reasonable to adopt the working assumption that: all of the definable
structuring of universe is tetrahedronally co-ordinate in rational number increments of the
tetrahedron.
Finite minus de-finite means two tetrahedra minus one tetrahedron. Finite universe
equals four cyclic unities. Each tetrahedron equals two; therefore, finite (4) minus conceptual
definite (2) equals two, which constitutes one negative invisible tetrahedron.
Reviewing again, this halo conceptioning discloses the minute yet finitely
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discreet inaccuracy of the fundamental assumption upon which the calculus was built; to wit,
that for an infinitesimal moment a line is congruent with the circle to which it is tangent and that
a plane is Congruent to the sphere to which it is tangent. Calculus had assumed 360º around
every point on a sphere. The sum of a sphere’s angles was said to be infinite. The Halo concept
and its angularly generated topology proves that there are always 720º or two times unity of
360º less than the calculus assumption of 360º times every point in every "spherical" system.
This 720º equals the sum of the angles of a tetrahedron. We can state that the number of vertices
of any system (including a "sphere" which must, geodesically, in universal energy conservation,
be a polyhedron of N vertices) minus two times 360º equals the sum of the angles around all the
vertices of the system. Two times 360º which was the amount subtracted, equals 720º, which is
the angular description of the tetrahedron. The spherical error of calculus is one discreet
tetrahedron. We have to take angular "tucks" in the nonconceptual finity (the calculus infinity)
to make a local definite system (the calculus finity). The "tucks" add up to 720º, i. e., one
tetrahedron. The difference between conceptual definity and non-conceptual finity is one
nonconceptual finite tetrahedron.
In the general theory of variables it has been recognized that the set of all the
variables may be divided into two classes – (1) the class of all the inclusive variables within a
given system and (2) the class of all those operative exclusive of the system. It has been further
recognized that the variables outside the system may affect the system from outside. In varying
degrees specific levels of sub-classes of these "background" or outside variables are identified
as parameters. This background "inside and outside" concept is a two dimensional or flatprojection concept.
Our omnioriented Halo concept converts the parameter consideration to conceptual
four dimensionality and discloses a set of parameters inside as well as outside the zone of
lucidly considered system stars. And the parameters are at minimum four-fold: [1] the convex
twilight zone of inward relevancy, f2] the concave twilight zone of outward relevancy, [3] the
stark nonconceptual irrelevancy inward, and [4] the stark nonconceptual irrelevancy outward.
Parameter [1] is a tetrahedron. Parameter [2] is a tetrahedron. Parameter [3] plus parameter [4]
comprise an invisible tetrahedron.
The considered relevancy within the zone of lucidity consists of one more
tetrahedron. For each "considered tetrahedron" there are three parameteric tetrahedra. We
discover that our omni-halo epistomological accounting consists of rational tetrahedronal
quantation.
When we missed the moon in our first attempt to shoot a rocket to it, the
tetrahedronal tuck in universe may have represented that discreet error. It was directly relatable
to our lack of awareness of the disparity of the calculus. This disparity is corollary to the same
mathematical disparity that was physically discovered in atomic behavior, which brought its
discoverer's the 1957 Nobel prize and which discovery in-validated "physics” long held "law of
conservation of parity" which held the obverse and reverse to be identical, ergo, redundant. A
further corollary to the tetrahedronal disparity of systems invalidates the functioning
significance of the transcendental irrational constant Pi. The comprehension of this mild error
and implementation of the mathematical strategy of nature's co-ordinate system which I have
disclosed and named Energetic/Synergetic Geometry may greatly improve the extra-terrestrial
undertakings whose effectiveness has not been frustrated so much by inadequate energy supply
as by inadequacy of fundamental mathematical conceptioning and its resultant technical
incapability. Our computer instrumentation is phenomenally good, but our problem stating and
question asking have been inadequate.
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In the inherently subjective language of physical transformation of an
omniinteraltering and accelerating universe there are only two fundamental kinds of observable
transformational changes, i. e., angular or sub-unity alterations and linear, or plural unity
(frequency modulated) accelerations. These subjectively viewed transformations of universe are
also objectively and locally controllable by man through designed angle and frequency
modulations.
In the Energetic/Synergetic Geometry's isotropic, vectorially triangulated,
omnidirectional matrix initiations the angular and linear accelerations are rational and
uniformally modulated, whereas in the xyz co-ordinate analysis of the calculus only the linear is
analyzable and the angular resultants are usually irrationally expressed.
Substituting the word tetrahedron for the number 2 completes my long attempt to
convert all the residual heretofore unidentifiable integers of topology into geometrical
conceptability.
By the omnidirectional star-studded Halo reasoning the development of a conceptual
tetrahedron automatically charges a negative yet invisible tetrahedron into the nonsimultaneous,
nonconceptual finite universe, comprehensive to the local de-finite conceptual system.
This discovery that all the differences between de-finite conceptual systems and
finite, yet nonconceptual total universe seems to provide a fundamental means of identifying the
physical phenomena entropy. Entropy no longer means inherent escape of energy from any local
system or decrease of local order or increase to disorder. Entropy now means the invisible
extraction from any local definitive system of the negative conceptual entity, i. e., one negative
tetrahedron deposited into universe balance of energy conservation permitting the local
extraction of any visible orderly conceptual system. Entropy is not random; it is always one
negative tetrahedron. It may have a wide variety of relative size (frequency) dimensions. A
tetrahedron is 720º and is an angular constancy independent of size. It is finite. It can account
finitely for any discreet rate of energy loss.
In resume: By our systematic accounting of angularly definable concave-convex
local systems we discover that the sum of the angles around each of every local system's
geodesically interrelated vertices is always two vertexial unities less than universal nondefined
finite totality. We call this discovery the law of finite universe conservation. ' Therefore,
mathematically speaking, all defined conceptioning always equals finite universe minus two.
The indefinable quality of finite universe-inscrutability is exactly accountable as two.
Ergo, finite-definite = 2 De (Di) = 2 definite-finite = -2 (di) de = -2
This is a subtractive 2--not a devisive 2, which latter occurs as the second derivative
stage of systematic zonal differentiation into the fundamentally positive and negative yet
disparate and inseparable aspect characteristics of concavity and convexity.
The finiteness of universe is thus finitely proven by comprehensive geometrical
system topological accounting. We have, therefore, a comprehensive universal synergetic
accounting advantage in respect to all systematic experience considerations both physical and
metaphysical.
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The first synergetic accounting advantage of known man-history derived from the
two-millenium-old discovery of the invariant sum (180º) of the angles of the obverse face of any
plane linear bound triangle. The second major synergetical advantage accrued to Newton’s
inverse ratio law of gravity as a comprehensive astronomical accounting system. The third major
synergetical accounting advantage was derived one hundred years ago from Euler's topological
discovery that the numbers of vertices of polyhedra plus the number of their faces always
equalled the sum of the number of the polyhedra's edges plus the number two.
The fourth major synergetical accounting advantage accrued a half century ago to
the physicists' hypotheses of the law of conservation of energy which held that energy had
shown experimentally that it could be neither created nor destroyed. From this assumption,
which threw all scientific and nonscientific considerations, other than the energetically physical,
into the then seemingly indeterminate realm of metaphysical, came the successive wave-quanta
accounting theory and subsequent fission and successful nuclear components discovery and
inventorying. Fifthly, Willard Gibbs' phase rule in a formula similar to Euler's in which the
degrees of freedom are in effect the vectorial edges brought synergetic advantages to chemical
strategy. Sixthly, the same synergetic accounting advantage is now extended by our law of
nonsimultaneous finite universe pattern conservation to embrace definitive consideration of any
and all experiences, physical or metaphysical. The latter strategically equatable accounting
advantage derives from a corollary of synergy which shows that systematic accounting of the
behavior of whole aggregates may disclose discreetly predictable angle and frequency
magnitudes required of some unknown components in respect to certain known component
behaviors of the total and known synergetic aggregate. Therefore, the definitive identification
permitted by the law of finite universe conservation may implement conscious synergetic
definition strategies with incisive prediction effectiveness, possibly of epoch initiating
magnitude.
We inaugurate exploration with our theorem of omniuniverse tetrahedronal
structuring. Whereas Van't Hoff showed that all inorganic chemical structuring is tetrahedronally
configured in vertexial linkage and Pauling's X-ray diffraction analyses show omnitetrahedronal
configuration interlinkages of gravitatiorial centers of compounded atoms in all metals analyzed
our omnitetrahedronal structuring as a triple bonded linear tetrahedronal array may coincide with
the DNA helix, and the tetra's four unique quanta corners may explain DNA's dichotomy
transferred T, A; G, C patterning control of all biological species reproductions.
A trial balance reconsideration and interconsideration of the significance accruing to
the inherent order of consciously permitted cognitions thus far inventoried as derived from our
epistomological premise that universe is the aggregate of consciously observed and
communicated experiences discloses an orderly succession of derivative dichotomies and
synergetic surprises accruing to the grand operational review of derivative patterns.
First, we recognize that intellect took the measure of definitive energy universe
because Einstein as intellect wrote E = MC2 . And we recognize the inherent irreversibility of
that definitive capability because the concept of energy defining intellect is unthinkable. The defining of finite universe is a function of intellect synergetically manifest in universe. Subsequent
to Einstein's intellect's definition of energy universe in two conceptual functions M and C2 his
definitive physical realm hypothesis of universe was proven valid by fission. With fission came
empirical validation of Einstein's theretofore hypothetical equation as now energetically
definitive. Because the
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difference between definite and finite universe is definitively two, it follows that the difference
between the physical portion of universe and total universe is definitive two. Whereas all
metaphysical phenomena were shuntingly disposed by the Einsteinian physicists into a then
supposedly infinite universe's ephemeralization; it now comes as a surprise result of our finiteuniverse hypotheses that the metaphysical is as strictly definitive as the physical. Ergo the
definite physical portion of universe plus the metaphysical or nondefinitive portion of universe
together equal total finite universe and the metaphysical must therefore equal a nondefinitive but
finite twoness.
The metaphysical which is now also contained within the comprehensive finiteness
of universe is greater by two in its comprehensive magnitude than the physical portion of
universe which lies inherently within the micro-macro metaphysical. And as the metaphysical
embraces intellection, we may say that the nonsimultaneous all-knowledge (omniscience, or
wisdom) gained by all men out of all-experience (universe) is comprehensive by a discreet
margin of two to all-energy (omnipotence) whose measure omniscience took. Omniscience is
greater than omnipotence and the difference is two. Omnipotence plus two equals omniscience.
META = 2.
Intellections are cumulative pattern apprehensions and are synergetically integrative
as wisdom and wisdom initiates new mathematical hypotheses. Mathematics implements man’s
calculation within minutes regarding energy actions requiring cons of time. Man’s intellect
masters energy's fastest behaviors. Energy light years are calculated in intellect seconds.
Omniscience is evidently of comprehensively transcendental alacrity to the speed of light whose
relatively slow articulations in universe are readily anticipated by intellectually initiated and
disciplined computation of mind.
There is a question-asking-possibility that omniscience may be transcendental in
velocity to the definitive physical speed of energy omnipotence. The synergetic anticipatory
capabilities of intellect (in respect to conceptual formulations of evolutionary transforming
potentials of universe and the anticipatory stratagems evolved by intellect to test such
hypotheses) imply the possibility of a velocity transcendence of omniscient functioning over
omnipotence functioning which could mean an intellectually regenerated evolutionary extension
of universe in generalized synergetical integrity. Intellect's comprehensive anticipatory
objectivities indicate a speed of functioning transcendental to physical events. Intellect may be
"creating" finitely extending and refining universe as it asks each next good question.
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PROFILE OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
As exposed by the Chronological Rate
of Acquisition of the Basic Inventory of
Cosmic Absolutes--The 92 Elements.
This chart is described in my Saturday Review article. It is a curve of acceleration
reliably portraying the fundamental rate of impingement of science and technology upon man, as
referenced to regular calendar clock time. Lists of historical inventions and discoveries are
formless because they are inherently open-ended, i. e., infinite. There is one closed or finite
family of pure scientific events. It is the history of the isolation by man of the ninety-two
regenerative chemical elements. Membership in this family of prime universe patternings requires
a "credit card" identification of specific and uniquely consecutive matching electron-proton
numbers. The family must consist of a11 ninety-two unique sets from one to ninety-two electronproton counts inclusive, and none other. That is the curve herewith presented. To it has been
added the curve of the rate of isolation of the, thus far, subsequently isolated, non-selfregenerative chemical elements beyond ninety-two. These elements of negative universe are
shown for comparison only.
The chart covers 800 years. It runs from 1200 A. D. to 2000 A. D. Nine chemical
elements (see list at lower left corner of chart) were already known to and isolated by man when
recorded history dawns. The first known isolation of a chemical element was that of arsenic in
1200 A. D. in Italy. There is a 200-year lag to the next isolation--antimony--then another 200year interval to phosphorus, then only a half-century gap to cobalt, whereafter, the list takes "off"
averaging a climbing rate of one isolation every two years.
The swiftly rising curve is not smooth. There are three distinct slow-down
"shoulders." These are occasioned by periods of universal warring. Pure science activity, which
these isolations represent most truly is frustrated altogether by the atmosphere of war. Because
the earlier discoveries of science are often converted to technological advantage in wartime,
science has been thought, erroneously--to prosper in wartime. What prospers is applied science
and production technology but not pure science, not basic thinking.
It is seen on this chart that 1932, popularly identified as the "depth of the depression,"
is, in fact, a moment of epochal success. In 1932 the last of the finite family of ninety-two
regenerative chemical elements, occurring spontaneously in nature, was isolated. For the first
time in known history man had in neat "know-how cans” on the "shelf" all the basic ingredients
for reassembling the physical universe's basic pattern behaviors in preferred arrangements. This
permits greatly increased performances per units of controlled and invested energies. It makes
"possible" theretofore undreamed-of physical advantage gains to be realized for all of humanity.
It is the beginning of man’s consciously successful participation in the evolutionary events of
nature. This conscious and scientific participation, in turn, leads swiftly to realization of physical,
metabolic
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success of man in universe.
After 1932 and the ninety-second isolation, there is an important, but temporary,
slow-down in further isolation. Scientific man became momentarily preoccupied in taking apart
the nuclei of those fundamental chemical elements. Fission and the theoretical release of the
elemental energy five years later, and realistic release twelve years later, was inevitable to that
ninety-second and final isolation of the full family of prime elements in ’32.
It is interesting to note that the post-uranium element isolations, starting with ninetythree, occur with extraordinary regularity. Witness the approximately straight line ascent of the
post-ninety-two isolations as well as the direct correspondence of the elemental numbers with
the numbers representing the successive order of isolations. This correspondence is unlike the
discovery pattern theretofore occurring. For instance, isolation number ninety-seven is
berkelium--element number ninety-seven, – with ninety-seven electrons and ninety-seven
protons.
In the first ninety-two isolations, however, the order of isolation does not correspond
to the atomic number order. The twenty-eighth isolation was zirconium--element number forty;
the thirty-first isolation, beryllium was element number fourteen; the eighteenth isolation was
hydrogen, which was element number one, meaning one electron and one proton and so forth.
None of the atomic numbers correspond to the number in order of successive isolation within the
"first family” of ninety-two elements.
The extraordinary pattern disclosed by this curve of man's acquisition of
fundamental controls over the basic energy patternings of nature portrays only the evolutionary
rate of development of pure science. It is subjective in that it establishes only a potential useadvantage for man. Without discovered use or technical capability to use having been as yet
invented by man, this pure knowledge remains only potential.
In view of this curve of development of the high fundamental potential, it is
appropriate to ask ourselves:--What is the most comprehensive change in the relation-ship of
man to his earth and his universe that may be realized physically by the application of this ”pure
(physical) knowledge?"
Probably the most significant consequence of the application of this knowledge is
man's alteration thereby of his ecological patterning in universe.
Amongst all the species of life on earth, none of them, other than man, has
consciously participated in the fundamental alteration of their overall, lifetime ecological sweepout patterning. Eels, plovers, and many other biological species unconsciously were forced to
alter their total lifetimes' cumulative ecological patterning--by the comprehensive earth surface
changes induced by the successive ice ages. As ice receded, cold-area-breeding types of life were
forced to ever-larger annual migrations between the most favorable tropical feeding grounds and
arctic breeding grounds, respectively. This was unconscious participation in the fundamental
alteration of ecological patterns. The designing and building of an hydro-electric dam or
development and production of an antibiotic constitutes conscious participation by man in the
evolutionary pattern transforming of universe.
Up to and including, my own father's generation, men were limited essentially to
motion accomplished almost exclusively by their own leg motion--mildly in-creased by horse
and vehicular travel. In 1914, American man was averaging 1640 miles
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per year total travel. Thirteen hundred miles were accomplished by his (integral) legs, and 340
additional miles were accomplished by his (non-integral) "vehicles." This vehicular
augmentation was a motion increase of only 25 per cent. As a consequence of mass production
of the equipment of mobilization during World War One, in 1919 U. S. A. man covered 1600
miles by vehicle alone--in addition to his continued 1300 miles per year walking--a total of 2900
miles per man. By 1942 U. S. A. man was averaging 4500 miles per year by vehicles plus 1300
miles per year by legs or an annual total ecological sweep-out of 5500 miles per year.
In view of the ”life expectancy tables" we find that the total miles of an average
human's lifetime's mileage to-and-froing, ecological "sweep-out," up to and including my
father’s lifetime, was only 30,000 miles. However, at 69 years of age, I have already covered
three million miles which is one-hundred-fold the lifetime distance accomplished by humans of
any previous generations. I am one of a class of several million human beings, who, in their
lifetimes, have each covered three million miles or more. The class of senior airline pilots has
covered several-fold my three-million-mile "sweep-out.” Astronauts equal my three-million-mile
"sweep-out" every one hundred circuits of the earth, i. e., in approximately every four days of
Earth orbiting. All these dramatic alterations of the ecological pattern of man have accrued
directly to the inventory of Cosmic Absolutes--"canned" and put on the "potential shelf” by the
pure scientists, working like bees to store the "honey" utterly unaware of the value to man of that
honey or of what man will do with it.
To realize ecological pattern transformation requires that man penetrate
environments theretofore intolerably hostile to his naked existence. His invention of hats and
clothing first permitted man to penetrate hot and cold regions theretofore intolerable to him.
Clothing represented man's first environment controlling and ecology transforming tool. When
man built himself a house making possible his existence during external development of hostile
conditions, it did not alter, however, his ecological patterning geographically--anymore than did
his retreat into a cave. To make fundamental alteration of his ecological sweep-out, man must
propel his harm immunizing, controlled environment into geographical realms of previously
intolerable environmental conditions. He must propel the environment controlling device either
by his own power or by his control of power systems external to and greater than his bodily
power system.
In order to maintain a uniform measure of the magnitude of effectiveness of such
(previously intolerable) hostile environment penetrations by man, I have documented man's
circumnavigations of the earth--inside his succession of improved environment controlling
machines, propelled by energy patterns, which, though indirectly controlled by man, are
nonetheless external to and greater than his integral, metabolic energy conversion, propulsion
capabilities.
As shown by little symbolic pictures along the top area of the chart, the first such
circumnavigation of Earth by man was accomplished with the wooden sailing ship, which took
approximately three years. About 350 years later man circumnavigated Earth in a steel
steamship, taking approximately three weeks. Seventy-five years later he circumnavigated the
Earth in an aluminum airplane, taking approximately three days total flying time. Thirty-five
years later he circumnavigated Earth in an exotic-metal structured, rocket capsule, taking a little
over an hour for each orbit cycle.
We have in the intervals between the progressive modes of circumnavigation as well
as in the contractions of the successive elapsed times for the circumnavigations both a second
and third power acceleration of the original velocity rate of pure science
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growth as demonstrated by the prime family of ninety-two chemical element isolations. To be
realistic we must now multiply this third power acceleration by a fourth coefficient. The fourth
coefficient is the conceptual regeneration induced in the human mind by the concomitant visual
information, circumnavigation of Earth now being accomplished by the team of Telstar satellites
whose world-around relayings of the electromagnetic wave-borne T. V. communications will
result in a four dimensional acceleration of man's teleologic and conscious participation in
universal evolution.
The extraordinary fourth power acceleration thus to be realized by man in the
distribution of technology generating information, through computers, electronics in general, and
the world around information relay, will integrate the total acceleration of the rate of human
ecology transformation to a fifth power progression. Within ten years anything reasonably
"thinkupable" by science fiction will probably have been realized.
I know of no device as effective as this chart to generate comprehension of the
unprecendented rate of experience acceleration into which man has now entered.
Along the bottom of the chart the numbers 150, 450, 1450, and 10, 000 occur in
approximation of the cumulative number of key science and technology inventions realized by all
men, everywhere, up to the historical dates at which those numbers are posted. I have not yet
made accurate check of 1964 figures, but it is in the magnitude of millions. It can only be
measured effectively at a later date.
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VENUS PROXIMITY DAY
One of my working assumptions which has proven successful so often as seemingly to qualify it
as a reliable tenet is that "A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and
immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.” Others have probably stated
the principle in many ways. The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution's realization is
inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of
physical universe. At first the, only subconsciously apprehended, approaching confluences of
complex events make themselves known intuitively within the intellectual weather. Then comes
a gradually awakening consciousness of the presence of new families of differentiating-out
challenging concepts of every day prominence. It is with these randomly patterning families of
separate concepts that evolution is about to deal integratively. As a now specific unitary problem
it may be disposed of effectively when and if that unified problem becomes "adequately stated"
and thereby comprehensibly solvable.
Assuming that my tenet is valid I am going to put on view statements of a number of
once-seemingly isolated historical world events and conditions which my particular set of
experiences teach me to recognize as, now being all in swift confluence soon to become
popularly recognized, the world around, as constituting a unitary, contemporary problem the
grand solution for which should become implicit in my statements.
This day--December 14, 1962, --witnesses the extraordinary event of an Earthian
information gathering and radio reporting satellite coming for the first time into intimate
reporting range of Venus, earth’s nearest planet neighbor. This first solar system planetary
reconnaissance event precipitates an awareness of how little we know about how man may
successfully occupy earth and brings me to vigorous re-attack upon that most important problem
of man in universe. If he can't make a success of life on earth he also may be unable to make
himself a success anywhere else in the universe.
That realization brings us to scrutinize the few instances of men making a
professional success of their meagerly conscious participation in the evolutionary events of
universe as contactingly experienced around the surface of earth. In an ecology, generated by a
conglomeration of obsolete yesterdays’ conditioned reflexes, somewhat analogous to that of the
barnacles, crabs, sea urchins, star fish and snails living around the bottom of the water ocean
mantle of earth man now exists defensively around the bottom of the air ocean mantle of earth,
but with one important difference. Whereas the barnacles and other water ocean denizen's large
predatory enemies as yet exist and menace them, warranting their protective shells, and spiked
armor, man has largely migrated from the jungle and has disturbed the "balance of nature" with
his extra-corporeal artifacts to such an extent that practically all of his biological enemies,
physically larger than he, have been exterminated or isolated and many of his biological enemies
smaller than he, including many that are invisibly small, have been neutralized and his age old
environmental-circumstance-enemy of metabolic sustenance want has been potentially
vanquished wherefore his only residual enemies of note are the invisibly large unpredicted
geophysical events of cataclysmic magnitude and his most prominently and almost continuously
present enemy, himself.
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The most competent class of professionals at present on earth are the medical
scientists. In saying this I refer to the medical scientists themselves who are not to be confused
with the incorporated political lobby professionals who have sprung up in this era of massive
governments and massive corporations to exploit the unworldly vulnerability needs of various
categories of preoccupied specialists. Typical are the doctors who have been persuaded by
political lobby professionals to allow themselves to be organized, man-aged and represented by a
large secretariat operating as The American Medical Association. Every group of graduate
school professionals has its small percentage of keen but less adept practicing members who
make more effective politicians than doctors. These borderline professionals are readily
persuaded to "sacrifice" themselves for their profession in order to play parts in the political
drama written for them by the self-perpetuating secretariat professionals. The real doctors
themselves do not compete economically with one another. Though there has always been more
work for doctors to do up to now and probably will be for some time to come than their numbers
will permit; if world society became so well organized and healthy that doctors might no longer
be needed, nobody would be happier than the doctors.
Long ago the medicine men of earth learned, firstly, that they themselves knew
perilously little about their own subject; secondly, that their clients were incapable of adequate
self-diagnosis; and thirdly, that the clients usually called in the doctors when their maladies were
critically advanced with possibility of successful cure deteriorated.
At first individually and later collectively the doctors resolved to cope realistically
with the three lessons they had learned. To do so effectively they realized that they must deal
with the problems of human health on their own terms and without waiting for the commands of
their overlords or moneyed patrons to engage them in their medical work.
In order to avoid the obvious handicaps imposed by the rampant ignorance, social
and religious dogma and active suspicion and superstition of the times, the doctors initiated and
self-financed the foundations of medical science without recourse to outside economic aid or
authority. As scientists they sought for the generalized patterns and relationships that might
permeate the myriad of varieties of special case experiences and conditions characterizing the
medical case histories.
As generalists the doctors worked with all humanity without consideration of race,
creed, color, station, geography, political or economic status. They soon discovered that all men
were akin under the skin.
With joined forces and ever widening horizons of experience the doctors made
scientific studies of the patterns of symptoms and circumstances and swiftly discovered a host of
invisible enemies or friends of man and the general patterning of those invisible friends' and
enemies’ tactical campaign strategies. Medical scientists gradually converted their ever more
frequent victories and the latter's momentum of increasing economic credit into ever more
comprehensive and anticipatory medical and sanitation strategies which greatly reduced the
incidence of first one and then another of both the lethal and the less dangerous maladies of men.
When the doctors had established an inventory of generalized knowledge and
objective techniques appropriate to that knowledge, they entered into a second derivative phase
of medicine, that of cooperative specialization. Working as a coordinate army of special case
experts they were held firmly together by their prime generalized training and could cover a far
vaster territory yet in greater depth of effectiveness.
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All the world now knows of the phenomenal and entirely supra-political and supraracial bias success of the comprehensive, anticipatory, design scientists in the field of medicine.
But the world does not tend to comprehend or remember that the doctors were once slaves of the
overlords and that the first and most important step in the great victory of medical science was
that of the doctors taking the initiative and foreswearing as prime motive the gaining of wealth.
Some became wealthy but only incidentally. They foreswore wealth making as prime motive not
only to avoid science vitiating hypocrisy but in order to avoid relapse into economic subservience
to patron masters. We can understand the doctors' age-old conditioned reflex antipathy to even a
benevolent government's proposed economic prerogatives.
But for all their good work the doctors' task must be summed up as preventing man
from being an organic failure on earth. This does not, however, make him a success. Since the
subject of our thought on this Venus Proximity Day is of the possibility of man’s helping to make
man a success on earth and since this task requires more than the functioning of medical
scientists, we must look for the most prominent professional function, complementary to that of
the medical man, which seems also to hold highest promise for realizing man's earthly success.
The most promising function would seem to be one which could most effectively and
most expeditiously design the conversion of the total physical, intellectual, and historical
resources of the earth from the exclusive service of only a minority of mankind to the service of
approximately 100 per cent of humanity at vastly higher standards of living and degrees of
elective occupation freedoms than any men have ever known.
The function we have just described is a human ecology transforming design
function. It requires an architectural scientist--a new space age breed of architect. Fulfillment of
this ecological transformation requires not only the highest scientific competence but the
spontaneous ability to take and self-maintain the economic and social initiative in just such a
magnificently successful cooperative enterprise as that of the early medical scientists. This
initiative and its responsibilities can only be fulfilled by a spontaneous world coalition of a design
science inclined and self-selecting class of university graduate students under the designation
architectural design scientists organ-ized to specifically and comprehensively complement the
medical design scientists.
We may better understand how this may come about if we adopt the anthropologists'
viewpoint and definitions; and
firstly, we packagingly equate the total physical and chemical, corporeally integral
processes of men and their nervous system intercommunicated co-ordination with the
words:
Integral Metabolic Organism of Man = The Design Domain of the
Medical Scientist;
and secondly, we packagingly equate the total physical and chemical complex of
industrialization's world around resources processing and distribution system,
supported by the integrated industrial tools' world net-work and its total
communication system's intercoordination with the words:
Extra-Corporeal Metabolic Organism of Man = The Design Domain of the
Architectural Scientist.
Considering how logically the above-stated responsibilities meet their
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respectively differentiated internal and external organic functionings of man, one may well
wonder why it is that the architect does not now hold the prime design initiative and is not at
present functioning in the obviously desirable enterprise role of the architectural scientist
concerned with establishment of a scientifically designed adaptation of the extra-corporeal
metabolic organisms of man to provide highest man advantage in the constantly evoluting
environment.
The first answer is that the architects are still functioning as economic and social
slaves, as did the doctors before the latter long ago pulled themselves out of their serfdom by
seizing the prime design initiative in respect to establishment of a scientifically designed
adaptation of the integral metabolic organisms of man to provide highest man advantage in the
constantly evoluting environment.
The second answer is that the active function of comprehensive designing of the
extra-corporeal metabolic organisms of man (to adjust man to the constantly evoluting
environment) which might have been served by an adequately self-disciplined architectural
scientist was, until the end of the first third of the twentieth century, personally usurped by the
physical and economic masters of men. The invisible prime designing world commerce banking
masters were also the slave architects' absolute social rulers.
Prime design initiative was held in early times by the head tribesman and then by the
great strong-arm, uniquely beweaponed, warrior leaders of early civilization. In most recent
centuries the prime design initiative was held by the great masters of world commerce who held
supra-national, invisible control over world armaments manu-facturing for both sides of
international warring.
The historical chain of strong-arm and armaments masters of men conceived of
progressively daring and magnificently designed grand scale strategies for controlling the
physical environment modifications of their respective realms--and wishfully of their
neighboring realms. At first their prime designing went into fortresses and walled domains and
then into new magnitude offensive weaponry. Warrior kings ordered their court architects to
detail and realize the kings’ specific prime conceptioning in all matters concerning the investible
physical capabilities and available resources of their realms.
As world wealth multiplied, the few early great monarchs were succeeded by larger
numbers of feudal lords of ever increasing armed power. Power was decentralizing. These feudal
lords continued to order their court architects to detail and realize the feudal lords' prime
aggregate of conceptual designings for scheduling the effective investment of their realms'
practically organizable, resource capabilities. If there was adequate surplus of time, materials,
skill and labor for the architects to invest in aesthetic proportionment and surface detailings
advertising the cultural majesty and religious devotion of the ruler--so much the better.
As the wealth multiplied ever faster it came to be reinvested in ventures beyond the
limits of the realm and border fighting. It was invested in the building, out-.fitting, and manning
of high seas enterprise ventures as a prime design conceptioning of the realm lords' ambition to
exploit the secret information regarding far away riches as learned from explorers, travelers, and
traders.
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See ”Universal Requirements of a Dwelling Advantage," Architectural
Design Magazine, London, England, March, 1960, pp. 101-110.
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Thus, the era of world commerce and then the era of industrialization grew out of
that prime designing of ships and of the ship building and operating technology as an integrated
tool complex founded not on local resources but on the total known world around resources'
physical, technical, cultural, and strategic.
It is of utmost importance to our understanding of the prime design initiative and its
bearing on today’s world problems for us to comprehend that creation and development of the
ultimately world girdling high seas shipping also initiated the physical realization of world
industrialization.
World industrialization was realized in the designing, producing and operating of the
tool complexes with which to build ships, the building process of which ships became, many
centuries earlier, the prototype of Detroit's modern moving line assembly and which end product
ships themselves came to be second derivative tools whose reproductions, maintenance
improvement, and world around resource integrating commerce in turn regenerated an intellect
differentiated and integrated "chain redesigning action". in the industrial tools' regenerative
improvement and development of world around tool integrating tool-network complexes. The
latter have multiplied transformingly and have evoluted inexorably toward an ultimate, world
embracing, computer instructed and automated, self-improving ecology embracing all of men's
inanimate, extra corporeal organic functioning. Viewed as a whole, industrialization has
developed into an extra corporeal organic man needing even more powerful scientific "doctors”
than those now attending to the internal organic man.
To clarify this industrial tooling concept we must recognize that the crafts,
agriculture, hunting and fishing all involved tools, but that these latter tools were all devices
which could be invented (over and again) by an individual man starting nakedly in the
wilderness having only his own limited experience and the local physical resources to inspire
him and facilitate his invention's realization. We will speak of all those tools as "craft" tools. On
the other hand we may define the tools of industrialization as all the devices which cannot be
produced or operated or employed by one man and which require all the remembered experience
relaying of all men, everywhere around the earth, and all of which multiple-man produced and
operated and used industrial tools are interrelated and interresponsible for their progressively
improving transformation.
A typical example of the industrial tool is the steamship "Queen Mary” which no
one man could design, produce, operate, or use exclusively.
We may observe sum totally that the craft tools were inherently and historically the
product of discontinuous, non-overlapping individual experiences all of which were local both in
time and geographical resource considerations, speaking both physically and mentally; whereas
the industrial tools are inherently and historically the product of continuously overlapping,
cumulative, comprehensive omni-interrelated experiences of all men everywhere around the
earth in all recorded time all designed to deal with the ever improving potentials of the
progressively interrelated physical resources of universe.
The modern industrially produced carpenter’s hammer integrally forged, alloy steel
head, and (electrically insulated) handle may not be classed as a craft tool as was the easily
shatterable stone head, wood fork handled hammer of eave man. The modern carpenter's
hammer is an industrial tool for by definition, it cannot be produced from raw resources by one
man.
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By our prime definition the first industrial tool was the humanly conceived and
spoken word, spoken by one man and understood by another, which invention would not have
occurred except as the necessity of a plurality of men. It took at least two men to devise the first
word. Man alone in the wilderness reflexes adequately without word tools. "In the beginning was
the word"--might be changed to "In the beginning of industrialization was the word"--the first
atmospheric wave propagating, ear diaphram receiving, physical formulation of an abstract
teleologic device invented entirely by intellect's anticipatory conceptioning of its usefulness and
by man's subsequent conscious (fading off into subconscious) disciplining of muscles and
nerves.
In comparison to local fishing and trading vessels, the high seas' ships were such
relatively large and complex vessels incorporating integral floating fortresses functions that the
Leonardo da Vinci type court architects of the realm who had until then been assigned only
complex dry land design problems such as that of a combined castle fortress and walled city
planning or of fortresses-destroying mechanisms were now as-signed as naval architects to the
secret designing and supervision of high seas ship building.
Experience soon taught that the ships were progressively improvable as they went
from one country to another obtaining straighter and taller masts here and stronger and larger
sails there, stronger ropes at another place and bronze for their cannons at yet another. The ships
were designed for beaching out at foreign ports in order that they might be worked upon
anywhere. The ships' crew included the skilled ships carpenters and riggers. Many of the great
ships came in due course to circle the seas of the earth. When they finally came home at the end
of a moving production line thousands of miles long, they were almost unrecognizable because
of their improved parts and taller masts which made the ship a truly gallant whole. Furthermore,
the ships brought home with them hold and deck cargoes of the better ship-building resources for
building better ships at home. Thus, we see how ship building became the first "moving"
production line--a moving production line that finally circled the earth. We also see how the
ships became regeneratively self-improving.
Because of the continuous design improvement potentials of the moving line
production system, as well as the importance of design lessons to be weathered at sea in storms
and battles, the great court architects who had become naval architects often went off with the
ships.
Thus, we have architecture dividing into two main classes: first, the naval architects
who dealt at first hand with the dynamic complex tool engineering, mechanics, and structures
and second, the landed architects who dealt secondarily with the static aesthetical celebration of
the wealth realizations when the ships "came in. "
The naval architects went on to gain world geographical and cultural knowledge and
fleet operations ability until as grand naval strategy designers, they from time to time emerge as
admirals and first lords of sovereign Admiralties of the great sea-power nations.
Because of the enormous and unexpected additional drain of such extra-realm
wealth investing in high seas ships and the frequent disasters which befell their venturing the old
kings of their respective realms progressively lost control of their shipping enterprises, yielding
them to the great new financial masters who with their (chattel mortgage protected) gold
underwrote both the capital investments in ships and the, very long voyaging, mercantile
ventures and their deferment of profit realizations far beyond the
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seasonal cycles of the older and customary agricultural, animal husbandry, local fishing and
home arts and crafts, wealth turn-over realization lags.
Though courageous and powerful sea captains and crews fought for the supremacy
of the seas--the equipment and supplies and weapons with which they fought and the trade which
they completed was all underwritten and gradually came to be strictly controlled by the powerful
private bankers who through their loanable gold, essential to foreign trading with strangers by
whom gold was most universally recognized and most easily test validated, became the world's
new masters and in time took over the prime design prerogatives from the kings and powerful
feudal lords. The same private bankers came thus to underwrite the fleets of many nations often
of competing nations and thus found them going through secret sovereign bankruptcy
proceedings taking over the world armaments and institutional industry. From this time on the
great international banking masters, who made many, secondary investment, design concessions
to the feudal leaders and politicians in order to have their strong feudal arms available when
necessary, generated and developed the prime ecological patterning modifications of world man
through their popularly invisible control of the money's underwriting of the increasingly larger
capital magnitudes of the commerce and industry enterprises.
Through their increasingly invisible but increasingly powerful prime design
authority educated by the integrating patterns of the many world enterprises which they
underwrote and had to keep track of the finance masters ruled on how much of the precious steel
so made would go into railroads, steamships, buildings, navies, and how much would go into
making newer master tools again to produce larger amounts of steel. They also decreed what
manner of architectural orders and aesthetics should outline and adorn both their shipping and
landed building ventures. While the end results of 'the new masters' prime designing became
increasingly visible in the new burgeoning of world commerce and the beginnings of landed
industrialization as the shipyard and moving production line techniques crept back up the rivers
and onto the land it is to be noted that the prime design authority found it increasingly expedient,
in avoiding high seas or landed piracy or highjacking of their ventures, to conceal their prime
design power as well as the comings and goings of their ships and their own personal identity
and whereabouts and thus came to play a world-drama puppetry game in which kings and
parliaments were their puppets. But it was essential to the success of their game that the kings
and parliaments remained seemingly sovereign to the world's respective individual nation's
populaces. The more invisible the new masters became the more powerful they found themselves
to be while their puppets too seemed to increase their powers in the eyes of the world populace
due to the real masters invisibility.
Prime designing by the international bankers was inherently supranational as well as
invisible. They invested their ever self-augmenting tool and resource capabilities around the
earth in such a manner as to control the exploitation at source of all the mineral wealth of earth
then coming into usefulness in the tooling and instrumenting of the new industrialization's
multiplyingly complex networks. ”Monopolize at the prime mineral and organic sources out of
sight and out of mind of the centers of civilizing population” became one of their important
strategems.
The international bankers also controlled the rates of monetary exchange which
controlled the relative wages and relative standards of living of the various nations. They
designed the scheme of annual payments between national economies by which they transferred
their gold from vault to vault in London, Paris, or New York without allowing their gold to be
jeopardized upon the pirate infested high seas.
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Because those great masters of wealth had also one mortal enemy they could not deal
with, death, by disease or age-failing body, they did not challenge the independent design science
initiative which the medical scientists had seized, monopolized, and developed to far beyond the
non-scientific comprehension of the bankers. The doctors alone knew how to stay the bankers'
deaths or to give the bankers health with which to enjoy the riches and power they had won. But
the old masters kept the landed architects and engineers functioning in their traditional capacities
to do their bidding in detailing and realizing the differentiated out and unavoidably obvious parts
of the great commercial masters' ever vaster overall designs.
To implement their supra-town, city, state, and nationally patterned system's controls
the G. P. D. W. M. s, i. e., the Great Prime Designing World Masters, needed lawyer confidants
whom they could trust as legal design detailers to cope with the complexities of world around
customs and laws. Thus it happened that the G. P. D. W. M. s came to finance the building and
maintenance and progressive expansion of universities, first giving special, extended, graduate
educational advantages to lawyers and medical men. Later on the G. P. D. W. M. s confronted
with burgeoning wealth management complexities, came to need super clerks--presidents and
vice presidents they called these puppets--to run their increasingly gigantic establishments
wherefore the bankers next underwrote graduate schools of business administration.
By the great financiers' deeds of gift stipulations all the brightest students were
pushed or lured into graduate fields of specialization because the old masters, understanding
better than any the power of divide-and-conquer tactics, went in for anticipator divide and
conquer effected through early interception and diversion into specialization of any bright young
men who might otherwise rise to challenge the great masters' supreme world designing authority.
Such young bright ones would be detected at an early age and sent in the direction of highbred
specialization that would guarantee their "minding their own business." Such specialization
would divert their curiosity and possible comprehension of the bankers' comprehensive, complex,
and obscurely phrased controls of world enterprise designing strategy. And the few bright ones
who did not get caught in their specialization traps and did in due course catch on to their vast
game were invited to become partners of the G. P. D. W. M. s. One of the offspring of the old
masters once said to me, "Bucky, I am very fond of you and I must tell you frankly you will never
be a success. You go around trying to simplify things when the first law of success is 'Never
make things simple when you can make them complicated. ’" All unexpectedly these old
international banking masters of the world, who for a moment thought they had won the war, lost
their earth-embracing controls as of World War One because of the inadequacy of their total
supply of loanable gold, even when augmented by silver to match the newer and astronomically
multiplying magnitudes of capital requirements for completion of the war effort in the U. S. A.
and for the fabulous post-war scale of expanding industrial tooling and weaponry enterprises.
The finance masters sensing an historical reorientation of the fundamental meaning
of wealth (due to the development of industrialization which was founded on man’s progressive
intellectual apprehension and mastery of energy, in its associative and dissociative states of
matter and radiation, respectively) had foreseen the possibility of a shifting of the base of wealth
from gold to energy and had been gradually shifting their fundamental controls over to control of
the industrial energy supply which they also had hoped to monopolize through ownership and
control of all the world's central power stations of electrical generation from coal and ownership
of transmission lines and rights of way of that power as it passed over their monopolized wire
conductors.
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The old masters were greatly shaken however by the sudden emergence of petroleum as a far
more fluid prime energy source than coal and the development of internal combustion engines fed by the
flowing petroleum products all of which tended to swift decentralization of physical power control which
of course vitiated their carefully developed power plans in important degree. While the masters of the new
petroleum empires which soon arose have at times come close to taking over the old banking masters'
comprehensive world prime designing controls the world scene growth of the great new communist power
concurrent with the growth of the petroleum empires split world dominance in a prime economic
dichotomy and further tended to sub-split the petroleum power itself into a plurality of gigantic but
nonetheless internationally competitive secondary power groups. In the same way the communist empire
tended and as yet tends to split into competitive sub-empires, at first bolsheviks, mensheviks, white and
red, now into orthodox and revisionist, etc.
It is also worth digressing to mention briefly that in 1953, a third of a century after the world
finance capitalists were gone, an attempt was made by a new and scientifically educated generation of
would be world mastering (investment securities sales underwriting) bankers to re-establish prime world
control by a bold but unsuccessful attempt to persuade democracies' leaders to hand over democracy's
politically articulated checks and balances (almost subconsciously yet very firmly) rejected the subterfuge.
There was a far more fundamental reason, however, than the inadequacy of gold which
brought about the pre-World War I banking masters' loss of terrestrial economic control. The far more
fundamental reason was that 99 per cent of the variable factors, entering into control of all physical,
industrial, and weaponry enterprise as of World War I and immediately subsequent years, had vanished
from the sensorial ranges of the electro-magnetic frequency spectrum into the vastness of the infra and ultra
sensorial physical-universe frequencies ranges of quantum physics, chemistry, and pure mathematic s.
As technology went from wire to wireless, from track to trackless and from visible to
invisible controls in general, the old banking masters' nonscientifically disciplined brains could not
comprehend what was going on in the myriad of scientific specializations' invisible advances.
Paradoxically it is to be remembered that in underwriting the new graduate schools of the universities the
bankers themselves had shortsightedly invented, designed, and underwritten this sgecializations
development. Bitter as it must have been to them to realize that they had organized their own undoing the
bankers thus became impotent in the prime design function of conceiving the evolutionary prime designs
and comprehensive systems, potentially to be realized from the new harvest of scientific specialization
events. The lawyers, most of whom became specialists but a few of whom the great masters had allowed to
become partial comprehensivists, to take seats by their masters’ sides in the formulation and
implementation of their grand strategy designs, likewise lacked adequate specialized scientific disciplines
necessary to understand and break up the "log jams" of invisible scientific potentials.
In. 1929 the old masters died. The wheels of industry and commerce stopped. The world’s
people asked their political leaders to get them going again.
The people asked their political leaders to get the wheels going because the world’s people
never having known of the invisible grand masters believed that their
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political state heads, whom the grand masters invisibly manipulated, were the real comprehensive
grand masters. The political leaders who had played their parts well looked secretly to their old
masters for instruction on how to get the wheels going again and found that the old masters had
disappeared they knew not where. Having waited as long as they dared for the reappearance of
their old invisibly operating masters, who failed to show up, the world's major nations' respective
political leaders took over. There was nothing else that they could do.
The politicians who had far less scientific competence than the old masters but who
realized that protracted control of their newly realized power could only be maintained by the
man who held the gun on the backs of the men who held the guns and that the men who held the
guns had by training the ability to talk with the scientists immediately passed the science
potentials realizing problem over to their military establishments.
Thus the Army, Navy, and Air Force War Colleges, maintained for the post-graduate
and post-world around military services' intensive studies by senior military strategists, who had
been meticulously trained in comprehensive capability to hold effective liaison with the sciences,
came to organize scientific procedures for comprehensive exploitation and progressive
reinvestment of the inherently self-reaugmenting industry-science wealth. But the military had
been trained to recognize and comprehend only the narrow weaponry "band" of potentials, within
the vast generalized significance-spectrum range embracing full realization by industrialization of
the new, scientific potentials, inventory.
Thus it happened that the grand comprehensive design science initiative went
exclusively in the direction of bigger and bigger, faster and faster weaponry, while con-temporary
political leaders not knowing that both the old masters and their entire breed were dead, as
descendant political protagonists of the conventional old and familiar political systems controls of
the old grand masters or of the latters' old adversaries--set out futilely to exploit the scientific
potentials in weaponry intending to defend the old order against a theoretical but in fact utterly
artificial enemy. This greatest nonsense of history came about, approximately as follows-When in 1929 the old world commerce banking masters' controls went dead, a chain
reaction series of bankruptcies occurred. It started at first with the farmers who had overmortgaged their farms to buy the new post-World War I prime-mover, power decentralizing farm
working machinery. The farmers over-produced with the new machinery and saw their market
prices and profit margins dwindled and unable to make payments to the banks on the farm
machinery purchases, the county banks foreclosed their mortgages on the farms. This was before
the day of the time payments underwritten only by chattel mortgages on the machines. The chain
reaction bankruptcies then closed the smaller county and town banks that had loaned on the farm
mortgages and had found the foreclosed farms and buildings approximately worthless and
unsaleable to a city-seeking and farm-abandoning population. Next the big western cities' banks
who had discounted the notes of the smaller banks found their foreclosed properties in turn to be
worthless. Finally the biggest banks in the eastern United States foreclosed on the great western
cities’ banks. By the time F. D. R. 's New Deal was elected three years after the 1929 crash the
banks were failing at a rate of 5, 000 per day in the U. S. A.
As F.D.R. ’s New Deal government took Congressionally accelerated office in view
of the dire national emergency, F. D. R. decreed a national bank moratorium just as the last of the
big eastern banks were about to collapse. The money was approximately all paper and it was
found that the Great Bankers had nothing in the way of personal wealth
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as it had always been maintained that they did have with which to pay off the depositors. It had
all been a semantic and psychology build-up of never called masters' credits. Now this credit had
blown its vacuum seal.
The New Deal intent upon a great deal of political and economic reform was
nonetheless primarily intent upon rehabilitation of all that was economically valid in the history
of the U. S. A. economy and ”our way of life. " F. D. R. did not intend, despite opposition
charges to the contrary, to abandon our constitutionally established democracy and its fabulous
legal continuity integrity.
What was done by the New Deal was also undertaken as far as possible on the crest
of a popular democratic mandate, with the wave that provided the crest to be ridden, continually
regenerated by popular re-education regarding the issues to be dealt with. F.D. R., inventing the
"fireside radio chat, " was the first U. S. A. President to confide almost daily to "my friends"-who constituted the majority of the U. S. A. population, much to the pain of the most highly
conditioned reflexes of the obsolete old order progeny who were inherently a minority.
It must be remembered that F. D. R. was a man of great personal wealth and had
been brought up in familiarity with esoteric language of economics long ago invented by our old
world banking and commerce masters to shoo off the dull ones. F. D. R. was a bright one who
had escaped the specialization trap and if the crash had not come along or if he had been born
earlier, he would probably have been invited to become a "Partner" of the G. P. D. W. M. s.
F. D. R. looked upon the American economy and "way of life" patterning as being
possibly analogous to an obsolete and gigantic old battle ship but he also looked upon it as being
a familiar ship omnisynchronized in its design with a quadrillion times a quadrillion conditioned
reflexes of one hundred million American "grown-ups." He, therefore, set about to rehabilitate
that familiar ship and its familiar language and appurtenances without examination of its bottom
and structural theory framing. There was no time now to build a new ship of this size.
Everything had stopped--"But everything" – the best efforts of the greatest administrative heads
of the greatest corporations and all the admirals and generals and the previous President of the
United States notwithstanding.
F. D. R. succeeded in rehabilitating the old ship and in reblowing life into its costly,
hot air engine. As a consequence of that F.D.R. 's emergency decision, the American economy of
today (1962) and the American "way of life" looks superficially much the way it has for 150
years. All the categories of "earning a living" have the same names. But the banker today, though
he often wears the same striped pants of his pre-World War I prototype and drives up to the bank
in his Cadillac is only a clerk. He will hate you if you say so but he has no vast hidden property
with which he underwrites the bank's deposits. He cannot lend the bank's wealth in directions of
his own discretion. He can loan its wealth only in strict accord with government written formulas
so lopsided in favor of the bank that failure of the borrower automatically makes additional
wealth for the bank. No risks are involved. The banks and the business executives of 1962 are all
flunkies which they are beginning to realize but are not yet ready to admit publicly. The most
daring degree of freedom of today's banker is that of his right to try to lure a depositor in another
bank to switch his deposit over to the alluring banker’s depository.
When we examine the framing theory of the F.D. R. rehabilitated old ship, i. e., the
history of the structure of the economic system of the United States, we
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discover that so many fundamental changes have occurred that the ship that F. D. R. rehabilitated
and all the categories of functioning within it altogether constitute a ghost haunted old "battle
wagon. "
As historians have frequently shown, rich and powerful leaders of the early American
Colonies such as George Washington led the American Revolution but had no intention in
drawing up its Constitution of creating a direct democracy. The new government was organized
in such a way that the powerful older land owners could keep the idealistic new hothouse seedling
growth of democracy in good health through the wisdom of his feudal fathers who were not yet
ready to let their direct-democracy-plant mature to be transplanted into the outdoor countryside as
a regular life-sustaining prime growth. They hopefully foresaw such a time but felt that it must
develop slowly.
Immediately after the development of the Constitution and the subsequent
formulation of the Bill of Rights there developed the all important question as to whether or not
the United States Government should have the prime design authority accruing to economic
mastery of wealth. If the United States as a government were to be allowed to amalgamate the
total capital credit authority of its citizenry and lands, it could and would exercise the prime
design initiative. This was precisely what the founding fathers had quietly planned to postpone.
As a consequence of the exercise of the founding fathers controlling will in this
matter Alexander Hamilton as their floor spokesman was able to develop precedent-making
interpretation of the U. S. Constitutional volition in such a manner that it was arced
Congressionally that the federation of the states was for the purpose of coordinate independence
of action but that it was in no way a pooling of properties.
Hamilton successfully persuaded Congress to agree that the Federal Government
would not have the sovereign capital authority to initiate articulation of capital credit volition and
thereby to issue money. Money, it was agreed, was only a convenient token--medium of
fractional exchange in citizens' equities underlain by real ponderous or immobile static property
wealth, the wealth which belonged exclusively to private individual citizens.
It was further agreed that the Federal Government must borrow at interest from the
privately owned banks, formed by property owning citizens, all moneys necessary to facilitate
government business. The government must carefully budget its expenditures and must be careful
to refund those expenditures through collection of taxes, excises and import customs revenues.
When and if the government's income-outgo budgets were properly balanced, then
the government's borrowing capability was to be honored by the banks and the banks could sell
revenue bonds predicated on the government budgeted tax collection solvency. Property acquired
by the government was to have no appraised value and could not be borrowed upon. When we
hear U. S. financial interests speaking through the conservative political voices demanding
balancing of the budget, it is because enormous bond is-sues can be floated (with high revenue
for the security brokers) only as the increasing federal indebtedness becomes legally balanced by
revenues. Again and again mouth-watering and unbalanced government indebtedness piles up and
whenever the new increment is tax balanced on the budget, the lucrative new federal financing
issues are authorized.
What has not been clearly envisioned, comprehended, widely published, and
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popularly recognized as yet is the fact that when the 1929-32 private banking bankruptcy
occurred, was the fact that Hamilton's "Convention" or "interpretation" came to the end of its
effectiveness. This fact changed the economic framework of America and more radically than
would or could an outright political revolution. That this has not been recognized in any formal
way is due firstly to F. D. R. 's rehabilitation of the old ghost ship, and secondly, to the fact that
in this era of specialization such complex and comprehensive pictures are not readily grasped,
and thirdly, it is due to the silence held upon the subject by the vast number of its temporary
beneficiaries who intuitively would leave well enough alone.
The word ”banker" and the idea of banks is the same in the public mind a third of a
century later as it was before the crash and before F. D. R. froze the banking debacle by his
moratorium declaration on the day of inauguration of the New Deal and managed to reopen it
again by the simple device of having the United States Government take the sovereign capital
credit initiative and amalgamate the country’s industrially organized real capability wealth the
astronomically vast industrial tool network and technological know how wealth that had come
into being long after Hamilton, and therewith guarantee or underwrite all the future deposits of
individuals up to $5, 000 which would take direct care of the voting citizenry and not of large
scale speculative enterprise.
Inasmuch as the banks’ funds were invested by law at the time primarily in
government revenue bonds or in mortgage underwritten private bonds or direct private property
mortgages the government's next step was in effect to issue comprehensive guarantee of all the
mortgages. To rehabilitate the mortgages the government loaned funds for the comprehensive
repair and rehabilitation of all the buildings on the mortgaged lands and to rehabilitate the land
values by government financing of all manner of flood and wind erosion controls, crop price
guarantees, et al.
When the government became the prime underwriter, the Hamilton interpretation
was automatically cancelled, for the government in fact became the wealth source of last
recourse.
In the housecleaning that immediately ensued the bank reopenings and audits, it was
discovered that the bank owners had only negligible percentages of the required underwriting
money. The bankers had been operating on the public's admiring credit of their astuteness as
private venture backers whereby the banks had competed to attract deposits encouraged by their
apparent wealth, multiplying capabilities. Laws were passed by the New Deal Government
completely divorcing all security selling and enterprise underwriting from bank functioning.
Banks became strictly the depositories for people's earnings and savings. The funds could be
loaned to the government or to corporations doing business with the government or on terms
written by the government which involved capabilities for the certain recovery of the money.
In doing all this and more which we will soon examine the New Deal was able to
avoid however the semblance of the traditionally associated concepts of socialism. It avoided the
appearance of socialism through further rehabilitation of the "old ship" and its historically well
known ship's "Watch, Quarters and Stations Bill" governing the crew and its function categories.
To take care of the industrial production categories the government founded the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation and as prime capitalist the government endowed that corporation with the
largest funds that any corporation in history had ever possessed. The R. F. C. as it became
known then set about to rehabilitate all the prime production, process, and service corporations
of the United States economy. To do so the R. F. C. advanced capital to the corporations with
which to retool
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and expand the U. S. A. production to new levels of technical capability, capacity, and output.
Thus the government took over the prime design function, that of master-minding
the direction in which the regenerative expenditures of wealth would take.
The corporate managements were loath to go along with their own corporate
rehabilitation programs not that they were not glad to be reopened and for the moment solvent
but because they thought it would deprive them of their administrative prerogative as the
corporation's prime designer within its own domain. The corporation executives all had been put
into their respective executive positions of power not by the government but by the boards of
directors who in turn had been elected by the corporation stock-holders whose proxies the old
world bankers’ earning prestige had effectively managed to garner to be voted almost
exclusively by the O. W. B. s in the annual meetings. The American corporation managements
all said to the New Deal, "If you are willing to rehabilitate our corporation, this will be
tantamount to socializing the corporations and inasmuch as we are not government appointees
which we would have to be if you admitted the U. S. to be a socialist state (which we think it
really is) we would not be re-elected to our management position unless you allow us to make
profits that pay dividends that win for us the votes of our stockholders. " To solve this problem
the New Deal agreed with the corporations that when the government placed major procurement
orders with the corporations that the government negotiators would 'allow the corporations to
include profits up to 12 per cent in their calculation of their bids and the submission of their bills
of cost. The government stipulated, however, that the amount of profit up to the 12 per cent limit
would have to be established with each negotiation by agreements of the respective contracting
officers of the government and corporations respectively.
By the bank deposit guarantees, the R. F. C. and other innovations the New Deal
was able without formally reversing the Hamilton convention to make the government the prime
designing capitalist and to do so without visibly capitalizing the old-fashioned, static type
property as national assets--the highways, canals, navy yards, forest reserves, etc.
The New Deal made the government the invisible prime designing capitalist by
avoiding visible property capitalization while pretending that the government loan subsidized
and tool rehabilitated corporations were successful going private enterprise institutions thorough
warranting such credit which the government soon made them seem to be by the simple device
of articulating the government's purchasing capability (which invisibly inferred the government's
capital credit borrowing capability).
This invisible socialized capitalism worked as follows: When the government
(which is we, the people) placed for instance $50 billion of annual orders with the quasi-private
corporations (opened up and refinanced by we-the-people without strings for we later cancelled
the obligations and allowed the corporations to buy the tools for $1.00) the corporations having
so reliable a new vast customer as the government were able to go to the banks (which were we
the people) to borrow the working funds with which to buy the raw materials and pay the wages
(to we, the people) in order to produce the government-ordered goods.
The money that the corporations borrowed from the banks was, of course, the
people's money. It was no longer a banker's private wealth or private credit re-source. When the
goods were produced and delivered to the government, the government went to the banks and
borrowed the people's money to pay the corporations which money
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went through the corporations back to refund their loans to the banks. Thus we see the people's
own money guaranteed by the people's wholly owned government circuiting alternately around
through the corporations and then back again around through the government to the banks. Both
the government as the people and the corporations by subsidy within the order pricing are forced
each time to pay the banks large interest. The government's annual debt service is today in the
neighborhood of $10 billion. The government orders also pay the corporation stockholders $5
billion in dividends at an average of 10 per cent profit negotiated between the government
purchasing department lawyers and the corporations a direct subsidy to the individual
stockholders all hidden away in the government orders as agreed upon between the government
and the corporation management in a United States government treasury department ruling rather
than by Congressional action.
The New Deal found it much more satisfactory to pay off the old lady stock-holders
with dividends (the elderly women of America being the majority of shareholders of American
corporations) than to have all these women giving up their bridge games and having to stand
moaning and groaning in dole or bread lines.
The 50-billion-dollar orders issued by the government to its prime contractors paid
wages and bills that soon went to the purchase of automobiles, ice boxes, etc., which brought
about a second round of wages and purchases. The 50-billion-dollar original orders sent capital
credit flowing into an economic-dollars irrigation system which pumped the dollars through
approximately ten complete recyclings annually thus bringing the gross national product
readings of approximately $500 billion or ten times $50 billion of original government order
issuing. To make that wage flow secure, the government put a minimum wage rate in force and
encouraged labor to up its general benefits demands and agreed to the high wage rates in the
government purchase contracts thus indirectly and invisibly subsidizing the wage earner.
To encourage the corporations to regenerate their own increasing capacities and
capabilities, when the corporations in the late 1930's balked at expending any of their own
undistributed profits for the purchase of new machinery, the government agreed to ”loan" them
the machinery and to allow the corporations to deduct the cost of all research and development
from their earnings before calculating their income taxes. This rebating of taxes became another
hidden subsidy. It would have been just the same had the corporations paid their taxes in full to
the government and the government had then paid out the same amount in subsidies to the
corporations, but the latter would have been to visibly underwrite their research and development
and that is apparently what both the New Deal and the pseudo-private enterprise corporations did
not wish to have visible.
When next the great newspapers found that they could not pay adequate wages while
gathering and distributing the news at the price that the public could and would pay for
newspapers unless the papers carried enough advertising, the government's Treasury Department
ruled that "advertising" was research and development and thus in effect issued an additional
seven to ten-billion-dollar-a-year subsidy to the corporations with the implicit instructions that
the corporations must expend that money in advertising. That subsidy built modern Madison
Avenue. Madison Avenue then spoke out through its advertising in the newspapers to say how
America abhored socialism. The "old ship" picture was apparently becoming more realistic with
every New Deal move.
Through the interest paid to the banks which distributed enormous wages not only
for banking clerks, vice presidents, and directors but for more building of more banks and the
wages of their building and through all the hidden tax deductible subsidies
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and government purchase hidden automatic profits and through the freeing of insurance
companies from enforced investment in mortgages and government bonds and allowing them to
invest in and underwrite the pseudo-free enterprise prime contracting corporations and by
guaranteeing new home building mortgages for 30 and more years, which in effect means
government purchase of the homes and loaning of the home to the "owners" and by subsidizing,
urban redevelopment, public housing, highway building, and by guaranteeing farm incomes and
high labor wages and by subsidizing veterans and sending youth to college and giving vast
research grants and scholarships to colleges, universities, et al., the government gradually
arranged the total indirect socialization of America. In effect the government socialized the
corporations rather than the people and the people kept on playing the same pre-crash name and
categories games aboard and within the grand old ship, "Private Enterprise" just as they had
played these categories games before it was discovered that bankers didn't have any money.
So effective has been both ”the game” and the general wealth regenerating scheme of
the New Deal that general incomes have risen phenomenally in the third of a century since the
great crash and by the time World War II was over the majority of U. S. citizens were so
prosperous that they began to think of America as a land of a hundred million capitalists. By the
time World War II was over and those who remembered the doings of the "thirties" were retiring
or dying off, a new generation of management had come into office and approximately all
America was convinced that the corporations were indeed true private enterprises. With World
War II over the new era politicians, convinced that U.S. was a pure capitalistic private enterprise
economy, were perplexed over the fact that the great war orders which had the economy rolling
would no longer be in order. It was here that the U. S. political leaders threw their lateral passes
of the prime designing initiative to their military "Defense" establishments. The latter, employing
their "Naval, Air, Army War College" techniques of dealing analytically with total world
logistical and ballistical capabilities as well as with the full chess game of potential strategic
moves and counter moves, were enormously advantaged by the con-current development of the
giant computers which could handle very large families of dynamically accelerating or
decelerating variable factors and their complex parameters.
Advantaged by their mechanical brain controls the prime designers of the Military
Defense's Posture Mannequins--for international show window installations by the largest
industrial nations--realized--because their mechanical brains said so--that there was no peacetime
validity whatever for their postures, or for their prime designing decision to reinvest the ever
enlarging industrial capability wealth almost exclusively in weaponry systems (hot, warm, cool,
and cold, designed to sweep out and control ever larger domains and, in due course, the domain
of our immediate galaxy) unless the political leaders, who had given them the prime design
responsibility, could justify the super defense mandate assumedly furnished them by the
democratic electorate.
The super defense mandate itself could not be validated unless the political leaders
and their political machines could demonstrate an equivalent prime design initiative and defense
enterprise as being undertaken by a potential challenger to their preferred type of peace. Thus it
came about that the prime designing initiative which the old banking masters had monopolized
developed posthumous cell dichotomy and the prime design initiative now split into bipolar,
world hemisphere, prime antagonisms' defenses.
At this stage of world sociological evolution there came into major play one of the
earlier and great prime design inventions of the late international banking masters' initiation,
suggested to them by their lawyer lieutenants – i. e. --the corporation-48
the synthetic man who, if properly designed legally, can do no wrong, assertedly has a fantastic
composite brain and foolproof enterprise ingenuity, can avoid almost any responsibilities and
can be so large, long lived, rich and powerful that "he” can stay, dominate or even slay any
single-handed human or little bands of humans that block the corporation’s way without legal
charge of murder because the corporation is obviously not a ”real" man, ergo, cannot be a felon.
The corporation needs no passport and can take up residence anywhere in the world or in many
parts of the world simultaneously, effecting sum totally in coordination of its parts those tasks
which might be prohibited in one or the other of its political residences. But no matter how
”pure" the corporation may attempt to make its synthetic, scientific integrity image seem, that
image is always inherently corrupt for as the corporation’s directors will tell you, the
corporation’s first and only real purpose is to make money. If money can be made gracefully,
that makes the corporate servants feel graceful and romantically idealistic but it is irrelevant.
Finding the corporations', advertisingly claimed, moral and financial greatness,
ideological elegance and scientific capability ideal for political viability, the post-World War II
governmental civilian defense directors as the prime designers of the military defense posture
then set about to subsidize, to the point of complete socialization--i.e., government-guaranteed
total livelihood--the approximately "one hundred” largest corporations of their respective
hemispherical defense mandates as the prime, production and installations, contractors, for the
practical purpose of realizing the military establishment's prime industrial wealth reinvesting
designs as world around dominating, weaponry systems.
The hundred corporate grime contractors, employed by the unified, prime designing
and merged army-navy-air-and-space war colleges' joint-chiefs-of-staff, who in earlier turn had
been sent into play by the otherwise helpless and bewildered political world leaders, who in even
earlier turn had been mandated by their respective electorates to--”get the wheels going and keep
them going”--when the old banking masters died, then proceeded to inaugurate evoluting
weaponry systems whose hitting range and power was in continual flux of expanding capability.
Thus, the continual changes that the military prime designers turned over to the prime
contractors brought about continually shifting patterns of sub-contracting down to the lowest
echelon – the citizen who continually shifted his home base to conform with the shifting project
allocation and industrial deployment patternings.
To carry out this vast social preoccupation and wealth regenerating, recirculatory
system of the prime designing military it was also necessary to keep the educational system
furnaces roaring in order to pour out brains capable of dealing with the myriad of technical and
ever more momentarily valid specializations which as quickly as possible were transferred from
human brains, muscle, and nervous system functioning into automated functioning wherefore the
advanced educational furnaces had to be enlarged and intensified to produce the ever more
cosmically ephemeral raw resources, ”sophisticated" they called them, with which to prime
design the latest round of supra-power, range and velocity defense system tools.
In the super excited social state of such colossal hemisphere defense com-petitions
the possibility has been entirely overlooked that there might be some entirely different and far
more effective way of employing the by now fabulous physical energy production capabilities of
world society.
One such major "other" possibility is that which relates to one of the major
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unattended functions vacated a third of a century ago by the old financial masters of the earth-that is the prime design prerogative as it can and may be applied exclusively to the promulgation
of the successful evolution of peaceful expansions of man's physical capabilities toward
accelerated realization of total physical success for all men. This was the function that the old
masters deferred thinking about until such an almost impossible era as that of perpetually
successful and unchallenged world supremacy of their grand design system. In this area of the
vacated function which the financiers had never had the opportunity to exercise we find lingering
today only the architect and engineer who are as yet operating on the momentum of their slave
routines ever waiting for a master patron's voice to authorize them to tackle this and that local
detailing task. These architect and engineer slaves readily mistake the corporate administration
voices of to-day for those of their earlier masters and find themselves handsomely paid and
favorably publicized.
It is not irrelevant to our search, for understanding the reasons for the over-long
postponed self-establishment by architects of their design science initiative on a parity with
medical science, to note that because architects sometimes draw or sculpt or speak freely for
their own personal satisfaction that they also tend to think of themselves as extremely
independent beings, at least outside of their earning-a-living hours. False magnification of the
sense of freedom established first by their architectural training years and secondly by their
extra-curricula expressions makes them overlook their economic imprisonment and belittles the
compromising significance of many of their routine tasks, which they toss off as harmless
whimsies or ignorance of business clients. The world of architecture is a superficially charming
world. It draws youth of good will and creative dreams. It is, therefore, paradoxical that it is
precisely in the world of the economic slave architects, engineers and industrial designers that
we find all the evil practices of yesterday hidden away in the easy-virtue ethics of venerably
”accepted practices. "
Here it is that the corporation managers may hire non-scientific designers to steal
their competitors' ideas as well as their superficial, corporate, promotional virtues. The architects
and industrial designers are taught even as students to compete against one another in stealing
the ideas and design inventions not only from each other but from successful postgraduate
practitioners rather than being taught as are the young scientists, to make meticulous accrediting
note of each and every item of the original work of others which they logically employ in their
own problem solving. Thus, quite incidentally, the minute new steps to greater understanding of
physical universe brought to bear by the acumen of each scientific development reporter come
into exquisite visibility and as such become magnificently celebrated.
To understand the enormity of the as yet unrecognized and, therefore, unpunishable
anti-social crimes that take place in the world of architectural, engineering, and industrial design
in exploitation of the naive innocence of those A. E. I. slave designers, we must take major stock
of the very largest fundamental changes that have taken place most recently in the cerebrations
of man on earth.
The greatest of these all history's intellectual orientation changes is the at first
scientific then technical then industrial and lastly political shift of mankind’s thinking frames
from the Newtonian Norm of "At Rest," and inherent changelessness, as seemingly constituting
the apparently fundamental law and order of nature and, therefore, to be most reverently,
scientifically, technically, and economically served and conserved --shifting over to the
Einsteinian Norm of "Continual Evolutionary Change" as the prime characteristic of nature
which must be most reverently, scientifically, technically, and
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economically served and conserved.
For long the political bases of bipartisanship were fashioned, on the conservative
right, which, happily husbanded no change, being quite content with their "in" position, and, on
the radically conservative left by the agitators for reform in the manner of sharing the
changelessness of nature. But now as a consequence of the shift from the Newtonian to the
Einsteinian both the right and left are immersed in, and mutually profiting in, the economic
realization of "change” being normal. In reality the old political bases are utterly vanished. In the
non-realistic static geographical frames of political representation the obsolete political
paraphernalia still lingers, soon to be abandoned of realistic necessity and popular demand. All
that is now at stake between the old political parties is a shift in patronage blessings to be derived
from the commonly approved dynamic economic system, the shift over to which few laymen,
politicians, or industrialists realize stems directly from Einstein.
Far more important to our immediate consideration, however, in respect to the shift
from the now scientifically invalidated Newtonian changelessness concept of physical universe
to Einstein's normal evolutionary change acceleration, is the opportunity of present and future
humanity which has been essentially overlooked in the maelstrom of the historical shift, to wit:-the following.
In the concept of changelessness the most impressive assets of man's existence were
the seemingly "real" physical increments which could be "possessed" or occupied and guarded
by man – and around which he has organized a vast body of law, governing that possession and
the "rights" and "means" governing its transferred possession.
In the concept of constant inexorable change the most valuable assets of man are his
utterly abstract, weightless ”ideas" which permit his swift recognition and adjustment to the ever
changing pattern. The most valuable ideas are those which not only comprehend the change but
also the trendings of the change and anticipate the next important change events--as does the
good driver of a car, a pilot of a plane, a captain of a ship – thereby enabling the safe and
satisfactory dynamic, forward, transformative processing of man in evolutionary universe.
In the industrial era the meaning of wealth has also been radically transformed in
concert with the cosmological revolution. Wealth which used to mean "real” inert physical
property now means the industrially organized capability of man to deal with forward events of
evolution. Pertinent to that meaning of wealth is the physicists' Law of Conservation of Energy"
which states that "energy may be neither created nor destroyed. ” Energy is finite and
inexhaustible because non-destructible. Energy as radiation and energy as matter are
intertransformable, as well as inexhaustible and it is control of their organized intertransforming
that constitutes industrialization and forward capability of man. The energy factor' of wealth is
inexhaustible. The intellectual factor of wealth is inherently self-multiplicative. Every time
intellect makes an energy control experiment--intellect learns more. What it learns that it adds to
the wealth is definable as a valid idea. Ideas are the multipliers of wealth--valid ideas that are
reduced to demonstrable practice by the individual are the essence of wealth.
The most prodigious and continuously displayed want-ads of the last decade have
been those of the prime contractors’ corporations and their multitude of sub-contractors--of
scientific specialty developments and manufacturing corporations-- clamorings for scientific and
engineering designers even though there are no such
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academic degree categories and no such courses in the scientific or technical educational systems
for the simple reason that this objective – a new and unprecedented design function in the
frontiers of science and technology--is inherently either exploratorily successful or inventive. Any
man may explore but to be exploratorily successful in science is worth a Nobel Laureate and to
invent is legally "an act of God. " Neither successful exploration nor invention may be
anticipatorily contracted for nor taught. But that "impossibility" is exactly what the prime
contractors have contracted to produce on behalf of the national defense’s prime weaponry
system's design initiative authorities which specious contracture it is wishfully hoped may be
swiftly enough gratified by 80-billion-dollar-a-year expenditures in laboratories, tools,
instruments, and in mammoth research personnel acquisitions, wherefore the prime contractors,
admonished by the prime designing military to avoid any Congressional investigation
embarrassments occasionable by sub-subcontracture with non-politically tidy parties no matter
how excitingly promising their inventive reputation, sub-contract with the most Ph. D. degreed
and scientifically named, specialty sub-contracting corporations who open their personnel hunting
offices on all the university campuses seeking to harvest at the earliest possible moment the total
crop of bright young ones most probable to make successful explorations and inventions all
predicated on the statistical theory that if one hires and implements enough personnel, then the
one-in-a-million, right-bright idea men will be caught in the contractors' nets.
The human generated literally weightless and ephemeral ideas and inventions despite
enactment of patent and copyright laws have not as yet been even mildly protected by such
property laws as safeguard the so called real, physical, and inanimate equities. People are jailed
for stealing a loaf of bread. They are rewarded for stealing ideas.
While inventions and new "fangled” ideas were anathema to the Newtonian era's
assumption of changelessness as normal, quite clearly good new ideas and inventions, which are
reducible to practice and which also demonstrate greater efficiency, are now in reality the most
valuable ”properties" of the Einsteinian age.
For every workable invention the individual "digs” his brain and works a thousand
"dry holes." In 1925--in the last few minutes life of the old masters' world power--and eight years
after the income tax was invented, at the request of the old masters, according to a published
statement of a major producer in the petroleum industry.
Congress gave to all mining industries a tax deduction rate designed
to repay them for an amount equal to the capital they exhaust
producing their minerals and to encourage them to look for new
reserves.
Hates differ, based on the scarcity of the minerals and on the difficulty in
finding them. The petroleum rate is 27 1/2 per cent; for sulphur and other
strategic minerals it is 28 per cent; for copper, iron, and materials for cement
it is 15 per cent; for coal and salt, 10 per cent; and for sand, gravel, and
shell, 5 per cent.
Why most for oil? Because it is hardest and most expensive to find.
Only one in nine test wells finds any oil or gas; only one in 44 finds
enough to permit the operator to break even.
In the publishing world of New York idea stealing is called "brain picking. "
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Nothing is so easy to steal as the right-bright idea. The department manager steals his
subordinate's--Joe's--idea and wins favor with the vice president who in turn steals the idea from
his department manager and sells it as his own to the company president. In turn the company
president steals the idea, makes it his own, presents it to the board of directors and gains himself
a. twenty-five-thousand-a-year raise, because the company earns a million more by virtue of
Joe's idea.
In the preindustrial continental isolations of yesterday nations' local conceits and
deceits could go unchallenged for centuries. But today's false premises and self-deceits both
public and private fall swiftly apart in the revealing light of scientific investigation and
competition. Intellectual integrity will win tomorrow's battles with accelerating inexorability.
Political and commercial sham and false premise institutions will vanish with startling rapidity.
It is dawningly in evidence that world society is about to discover the intrinsic value
of fundamental ideas and that the present slave functionings of architects, engineers, industrial
designers, interior decorators, fashion designers, advertising copy-writers, public relations
innovators and manipulators, as corporation hireable thieves of individually invented ideas
successfully promoted by competitor corporations probably will, in the not distant future, come
to be considered morally and civilly reprehensible. But for the moment the whole designing
profession deals only in the superficially innocuous paraphernalia of the now fallacious and
obsolete Newtonian changelessness concept which yesterday was rendered livably interesting
only through the superficial changes in fashion, styles, and orders of interior and exterior
decorating or in engineered nuances of physical "differences" and "individualities. "
So complex is this whole picture and so conditioned are the social reflexes in respect
to the maelstrom of concept transformations that it is all too easy to understand why it has
happened that the static – or unchangeable, earth-anchored type of space conception designers-the architects, et al. --were not called in by the prime or sub-contractors of the Space Age's
acceleratingly changing contractual obligations to help them in their outer space invasion
requirements to do ever more with less in order to produce the corollary condition of the most
highly compacted energy capabilities, deliverable at the greatest distances, with the greatest
accuracy and remote control niceties, with the least effort, in the shortest time.
While the space age blasts its satellites into orbit, mesmerized, everyday social
preoccupations are essentially with the irrelevant past's changeless, romance-engendering and
enchanting remoteness. Politicians become more earnest politicians. Pretentious governmental
and corporate bureaucracies exploit the historical prime de-sign initiative by playing games of
hide and seek contractual procedures, at hundred billion dollar expense leaps of "enlightened"
guessing competitions with their curtains' obscured ideological adversaries.
While that most paradoxical chapter of all history is being written the great
opportunity is overlooked that the architects and engineers and professional designers in general
now could go back to school and learn the fundamentals of chemistry, physics, economics,
general systems theory, logistics, ecology, and scientific history thereafter taking as prototype
the long ago successful comprehensive initiative taken by the doctors and many artists and poets
individually throughout all time whereby the architects, engineers, and designers might take the
oath of organized professional dedication to world man’s service as did the doctors and prepare
themselves, on their own service-inspired initiative, to deal competently and effectively with
rendering man's external,
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extra-corporeal tool complex organization fit to adapt total man to survive and prosper in the
evolutionary acceleration of universe, thus offsetting all the economic evils of uncoordinated
enterprise anarchy without killing enterprise and in fact greatly increasing the wealth generating
capability of individual enterprise within their design scientists’ comprehensive, commonwealth
generating, world systems.
The historical economic clock points to this moment as appropriate for such design
science initiative taking. The world stock markets present clearly the viewpoint of world industry
and enterprise-riskers and co-riskers. Throughout the whole history of stock markets bleak war
news always made the markets go up, for the news meant that the weaponry and munitions
expenditures would be vastly increased. In the 1962 Cuba-U.S. A. -U. S. S. R. crises in which the
atomic warfare of World War Three came nearest to breaking out for the first time in history the
stock markets dropped, which means that for the first time in history man's greatest financial
wager is on the production of peace generating industry and not on war. The combined economic
and world psychological climates are ripe for the reorientation of the world’s prime design
initiative from weaponry to livingry.
I said at the outset that if I could bring all the converging factors into evidence that
we might be able to state the problem properly and if so that the greatest problem of our day
might be to bring that problem with all its complex ramifications into focus.
To start off with it is demonstrated in the array of events which we have touched on
that we don't have to "earn a living" anymore. The "living" has all been earned for us forever.
Industrialization's wealth is cumulative in contradistinction to the inherently terminal,
discontinuous, temporary wealth of the craft eras of civilization such as the Bronze Age or Stone
Age. If we only understand how that cumulative industrial wealth has come about, we could stop
playing obsolete games, but that is a task that cannot be accomplished by political and social
reforms. Man is so deeply conditioned in his reflexes by his milleniums of slave functioning that
he has too many inferiority complexes to yield to political reformation. The obsolete games will
be abandoned only when realistic, happier, and more interesting games come along to displace
the obsolete games. That coming along of the better games is the prime designing responsibility
of the new profession the architectural scientists whose birth we hope and think we are witnessing
and the possibility of which we are going all-out to aid.
It is mainly to be recognized by the architectural scientist that playing the game as
America and Europe were doing at mid-Twentieth Century was fine for America and Europe but
these game-playing industrial countries were operating at so relatively low an efficiency of
performance per units of invested resources that North America with seven per cent of the world's
population and Europe with 25 per cent together with a world around set of scattered city
populations consisting of eight per cent of the world's population, altogether totalling 40 per cent
of the world's population were using 100 per cent of the world's industrial metals. It is also
mainly to be recognized that these "game" playing countries thought that there was no other way
to play their game with equally satisfactory standards of living and degree of freedom results. So
thinking, they assumed that other people were "just out of luck. ”
These countries on their own private governmental initiative would not have done
anything about altering the overall performance per cent’s of invested resources. Therefore, the
same a priori organic intelligence that makes human babies satisfactorily despite the ignorance of
the human baby factory managers is seen to be inexorably at
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work in the external organic development of man and is apparently intent upon upping the overall
efficiency of the performance per units of invested resources to such a degree that all of humanity
may be served by the same total world inventory of meltable and reinvestible industrial metals at
higher standards of living enjoyed at higher degrees of freedom than any man has as yet known.
(See Chart 30, page 30 of illustrations, Buckminster Fuller, by John McHale, George Brazillier
Publishing Company, 1962.) In order to accomplish this external organic birth of a total world
industrially advantaged man ”nature" or the universe inventing and evolutingly operating
comprehensive intelligence set the "communism" playing industrializationist competitively
against the "capitalist” playing industrializationist in a super game of the radically threatened
annihilation of one another against which each must develop its retaliatory devastating capability.
This became a competitive race to send the most hitting power at the greatest speed and with
greatest accuracy to the most targets at the greatest distance all of which required a phenomenal
step-up in doing more with less. And inasmuch as the intelligence feedback of their computer
implemented and progressively automated competitive systems became inherently selfaccelerating and self-augmenting the rate of evolutionary step-ups of the competition capabilities
brought about an ever swifter rate of obsolescence of the progressive stage tools of doing more
with less, which having been progressively tooled up for the respective massive retaliatory
capabilities of both the "communists" and the "capitalists,” provided an unexpected industrial
mass productive capability biproduct which was the re-application of the principles of doing more
with less to the home front living needs, not only of their own economies but of the economies of
the other 60 per cent of underprivileged humanity whose allegiance to these respective causes
both the "communists" and "capitalists” were courting. Altogether, the biproduct curve of this
unexpected livingry advance promises 100 per cent industrialization of all humanity realized out
of the same inventory of metals now serving 44 per cent of humanity to be realized within
another thirty years, or one generation of mankind. It is this curve of inexorable acceleration
being accomplished by the universal intelligence integrity that may conceivably be recognized
and directly served by the architectural scientists. If the latter become competent enough in their
comprehension of this total picture to be able to seize the world initiative in undertaking its
conscious realization then as a biproduct of their so doing, they will put the world effectively on
notice not only of their undertaking but of the comprehensive picture of world developments and
the childish game playing in such an educationally effective way that world civilization will
become increasingly intrigued with the new game of playing it "straight" and the high tide of
hazard of world atomic and biological war-faring will swiftly recede and presently disappear.
It is a prime principle of the dynamism of industrial wealth that the more that it is
used, the more that it multiplies its wealth of organized and unlimited universal energy capability.
No concept could be more diametrically opposed to the concept of swiftly exhaustible and
entropically wearoutable static property "thingness” wealth which as yet dominates the dogmatic
arguments of political reactionaries. Theirs is the concept of a national debt which is continually
increasing as an accounting of the supposed swift depletion of yesterday’s static property bounty.
The fact is that the current $300 billion U. S. Federal debt and the $700 billion private corporate
and individual indebtedness is like a paper accounting game whose total trillion dollar
"indebtedness” is more than balanced by the synergetic totality of integrally organized and going
industrial capability which means that if we burned up all the present books of U. S. financial accounts (not the books of economic account) tomorrow all the rivers and dams, all the veins and
lumps of coal, and the muscles and brains, and topsoil and seed, and the super-markets and their
well-filled shelves, all the people and all the knowledge and experience and their power and tools,
machinery, buildings, highways, wires, rails, radio stations and T. V. s, and all the rest would be
there, we would have to tell everybody that the
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accounts were destroyed or we could just give everybody and every corporation new ac-counts
and credit limits so that they would not use things up faster than they could be produced until we
are given time to produce bigger and faster machines which we will certainly very shortly do.
Everything would go right on working. We might even issue tickets to use all the facilities instead
of distributing that 4 per cent interest on yesterday’s trillion dollar paper debt which interest
amounts to forty billion dollars annually which is one hundred and thirty-three million dollars per
day (which means one dollar distributable to each U. S. adult per day to help him pay his carfare
and telephone calls and newspaper for which we tax him one dollar per day for the privilege of
living in the U. S. democracy). Of course this one hundred and thirty-three million dollars per day
fictitiously organized interest is not now being distributed per capita and is being issued to a
relatively small group who eventually put into broad circulation for the whole of the economy is
dynamic and money "deposited" in the bank amounts to immediately loanable paper imprinted
digits which fly out of the bank instantly. The only essentially important part of this game as
played either by the capitalists or the communists is that you keep on opening the science-built
main valve of universal energy flowing into the regenerative industrial organism whose
educational and technological feedback multiplies in capability wealth a millionfold faster than
do guinea pigs reproduce and multiply. The industrial science illiterates whom "the game”
dignifies with the name reactionaries call this process ”spending” which is an obsolete Newtonian
static norm expression. While Americans were slow to catch on to the regenerative characteristic
of industrial wealth in contradistinction to the static property wealth of preindustrial era
economics, they should have been adequately educated by the performance of Russia and the
dictator organized pre-World War II Germany, whose performance was predicated upon the
Russian observation that the U. S. economy in the days leading up to World War I and during
World War I when the hard goods purchases from the U. S. A. industrial economy by warring
Europe began to exceed by one then two then three fold the value of all the bankers’ gold in the
world. All the world had been convinced up to then that there was no wealth as such extant in the
world greater than that of all the gold of all the bankers. Russia in revolution saw that the U. S.A.
democracy coming into the war to save democracy taking up its throttle and dredge mining and
manufacturing and producing tools and more tools and goods without regard to money limits. The
bankers had bought from America all they had money to buy and all that they had the nerve to
ask for on credit above their total bank accounted wealth and as yet they hadn't scratched the new
tooled up synergetic production capability of industrial America. To get the rest of this capacity
put into play on the old banker master's side, they had to get America into the war and did so
whereat America just up and said well what do we need now to win the war and the bankers and
the general and admirals replied ”full industrial capacity production including ships and men to
get that production to the European front. " In the one year of 1917 America mined, refined,
manufactured, and produced more copper than in the entire cumulative history of all men’s
copper mining and refining all over the earth. This was typical of the new energy wealth spigot
that was tapped. After the Americans had produced and delivered to Europe hard and soft goods
exceeding by five-fold the total pre-1914 wealth of all the bankers’ gold, the bankers seeing that
the war was soon to be won said to the Americans, "How are you going to pay for all this?" "Pay
for it?" America queried in astonishment, "We have produced this from our own natural wealth. "
”Oh, no, " said the bankers, ”you forgot Alexander Hamilton. You as a government do not have
any money and your government is going to have to borrow from us, the banks, (which the
bankers did not admit were empty having been ”spent" several times over before getting America
in on its own) in order to clean up your war accounts. ” So America then invented the Liberty
Loan Bonds and the income tax with which to meet this surprise demand. The war was over.
America retired into America and into enjoying its new toy, the automobile. But Russia which
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retired from the war watched America unwittingly articulate this fabulous, limitless, new wealth
of energy universe realizable through the synergetics of industrialization production.
Of course, Russia had to have industrialization as soon as possible and (naming
themselves, U. S. S. R., after the U. S. A. heroes of this drama which the Russians credited the
Americans with as a consciously brilliant new contribution, rather than the inadvertent act of an
"all-out" good will and "join-up" spirit of American democracy) they established their
progressive five-year-plan stages of industrial tool acquisitions. If Russia had not seen this new
industrial wealth-generating demonstration of the U. S. A. and had simply applied socialism (as
Communism) to their essentially farming economy, they would have multiplied the sixteen
million who died by starvation in their first fifteen years’ operation by severalfold, and there
would be no Russia as we know it today. Russia today is a direct product of industrialization,
rather than socialism, which apparently takes no account of what type of political system
employs it.
The U. S. A. 's unwitting example of industrial wealth generation was then emulated
by Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy which rose to industrial energy might sufficient to
almost knock the world out in only twenty years from their utter bankruptcy of the 1918 military
defeat.
That our inadvertent industrial success has been realized despite our fundamental
ignorance of the synergetics of industrialization is fully documented by our pre-occupation with
this "game" today in which we are as yet able to deceive ourselves into believing that wealth
comes from bankers and that people in Cadillacs are of a superior stock to people in Ramblers.
America and Americans are wonderful but they have been as naive as they have been fortunate,
fortunate as the unwitting beneficiaries of all these milleniums of cumulative scientific and
technical experiences that went into the slow gestation of industrialization--conceived in Asia
milleniums earlier, born in Europe, and dropped as a foundling on America's colonial doorstep,
which grew to manhood in 1917, mistaken by its foster parents in the U. S. A. for just another
business venture of old-world commerce and agricultural economies.
What does all this add up to? It adds up to the fact that there is ample wealth being
generated by industrialization to be able to take care of everybody aboard the ship in an
increasingly handsome manner. This is because science has tapped and technology has put the
plumbing on enough of the unlimited energy sources of universe to run that energy in and
through enough prime movers to produce whatever man needs. The only limit is tool capacity
and scientifically and engineeringly disciplined knowhow. We do not need to tax ourselves.
That’s just part of the "game.” The wealth issues not from out of bank deposits’ printed numerals
but from the tooled energy flow whose increased flow is inadvertently augmented by the
Defense Departments of the major governments.
It also adds up to the fact that America was advanced enough industrially, at the
time of the New Deal take-over after the 1929 Crash, to be able to undertake this comprehensive
support of all its citizenry. If the New Deal had simply said, "There is enough to go around and
we are going to go into direct socialism, " there would not have been enough to keep people
busy. They would have had to stand around in lines to receive their dole which would have been
soul-destroying even if the dole was of high standard. It also adds up to the fact that in Russia
they did not have enough or approximately none of the industrialization at the time of their
revolution. They have never had up to now enough of the universal energy tapped and plumbed
in through an industrial organism adequate to take care of everybody's needs. After 46 years of
their successive
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industrial stage planning, Russia is approaching adequacy of industrial plant to take care of all
its citizenry.
China has started to climb the ladder of industrialization, and because of the
advanced knowhow at this moment of history, will climb that ladder of industrialization more
rapidly than it has ever been ascended before, possibly in one-half the time per capita that will
be required for Russia's half century overall requirement for only a quarter of a billion people.
China started with half a billion and will have a billion when she is industrialized. All of our
stocktaking adds up to say that energy harnessing and industrialization are the only differences
between the unsuccessfully scrounging-along craft-tooled stone age man and the present high
economic success of the United States. The difference isn't a political system or "the game"
most attractive to the playing by the respective world economics. Russia calls it "socialism, "
America calls it ”capitalism, " but it is "industrialization" itself which uniquely spells out the
difference between pre-1917 Russia and pre-1775 America.
Take away the industrialization from either and leave both their present
populations and call it socialism or capitalism, both countries would witness 100'mil-lion deaths
by starvation, far more devastation than would be wrought by atomic bombing. For that matter
it would be the major phase of devastation that would occur as a consequence of an atomic
bomb exchange. Those that would be killed by the bombs would be the lucky ones, for those
that lived would see their industrial machinery so devastated as to be unable to support the
hundreds of millions who survived the bombing whether or not they were in the bombed areas.
This whole essay touches briefly on what amounts to the fundamental categories of
information which govern the total challenge to the architectural scientist.
It will not be alone sufficient for the architectural scientist to design ways in which
the total resources of the earth may adequately sustain 100 per cent of humanity though that is a
good beginning.
It also will be necessary for the architectural scientist to spell out and de-sign the
way in which computer-articulated comprehensive automation will produce and distribute high
standard sustenance to any man anywhere without impeding the degree of freedom with which
man may explore his earth and universe.
The architectural scientist will have to design the conversion of all the cities of the
earth into mammoth universities. In order to keep everyone busy in the most worthwhile way,
the architectural scientist will have to provide means for inhibiting the whole world population
into a vast educational system. This educational system must be designed to include a
regeneratingly improving documentary television programming. The universities will in effect
become a manufacturing industry for the production of the intelligence generating and
regenerating tools.
The architectural scientist will have to assume the occupation by man of the threequarters of his earth’s surface heretofore approximately unoccupied by man in the ocean depths
and polar regions. Designing the environmental controlling means to make the increased
occupation of the earth a comfortable and enjoyable experience.
It goes almost without saying that the architectural scientist will also have to
design the means of occupying the moon and other planets as well as the means of constructing
our own artificial way station planets.
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The architectural scientist will have to provide for the vastly increased exploration
backwards into man’s earlier history and into the history of earth and universe. There is probably
a physical, intellectual and mathematical law which requires that man explore backwardly in
balancing degree with his forward explorations and formulations.
The architectural scientist may through adequate and competent search and research
joined with the psychologists, poets, and artists come to the realization that all men being
children, such games as ”capitalism" or "communism" though utterly obsolete have
demonstrably romantic inspirational reflex stimulation and may have to be resorted to for some
decades to come in order to keep man safely preoccupied while his new orientation in universe
and its now unschedulable new potentials and realizations emerge.
The architectural scientist will have to design the pioneering establishments of
complex production, installation, maintenance, removal, and reinstallation, service capabilities
on a global basis in respect to large and small environment controls, operating at an air
deliverably tooled-up level of anticipatory capability and overall economic efficiency beyond
any known present conceptioning. This new omni-deployable environment controlling, sanitary
and metabolic-process-facilities service establishment will immediately inherit on earth the
space-medicine-developed sanitary and metabolic process equipment for which billions of
dollars are now being spent as one of the key requirements for putting men into space and onto
the moon for protracted periods. The exquisitely light-weight, compact equipment that will be
necessary to solution of the "closed circuit" metabolic survival of man will provide the little
black tack box prototype for mass produced earth distribution of an autonomous and deployed
geodesic dome dwelling machine service industry as an extension of the telephone company,
telephone booth deployment program.
If, as I am intuitively inclined to expect, the university youth of the world were to
seize now the overall design initiative, no longer waiting to be retained professionally by clients,
and were to effectively employ the total reorientation of fundamental concepts in respect to the
harvest of knowledge accruing to all the vast heritage of man’s experience on earth, as well as to
the scientific probing of the invisible ramifications of physical universe, in the formulating of
their comprehensively designed ecological and logistical world planning and were thus enabled
to demonstrate that it is irrefutably feasible and practical to convert the world’s total mineral and
chemical resources, which are now engaged in servicing only a minority of mankind--at the
industrial network level of effectiveness and satisfaction--into swiftly realizable servicing of 100
per cent of humanity, at higher levels of adequacy, effectiveness, and satisfaction than have ever
been known to any man or have been dreamt of by any man, then in a soon to ensue major world
political crises, the student's previously and widely published, integrated physical world
retooling design, certified through its experimental reductions-to-practice wherever critical
technical functions were theretofore unproven, to be practicably operatable at a comprehensively
effective level will be adopted and implemented by world society mandate.
When the world’s resources thus are rendered adequate by design competence to the
service of 100 per cent of humanity, at highly advanced standards of living and enjoyment of
total earth, the long world history of warfaring, which has ever been predicated upon the
assumption that there is not enough to go around and that only the most powerful minority could
survive, would be forever terminated.
So long as the world’s people remain preoccupied with their exclusively
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local survival problems, and egocentric commitments have top priority, while leaving dangerous
world problems to solution only by man’s political leaders within the latters' narrow range of
available and short-term expediencies, the warring will continue be-cause political leaders are
neither disciplined in physical invention and design revolution capabilities nor empowered to
consider, let alone undertake, coordinate world enterprise involving total abrogation of the
world's local sovereignties as well as time involvements beyond the political leaderships
prerogative limits.
So long as youth negatively importunes its political leaders to forego military defense
strategies while youth fails to see its own positive potential in its opportunity to seize the prime
world design initiative and its responsibility to institute self-disciplined education in world
resources and human need trend studies, and thereafter its responsibility to redesign the physical
operations tooling of man to render that tooling adequate and appropriate to the 100 per cent
ecological success of world society just so long will man remain frustrated and in ever more
imminent danger of race annihilation.
Emergence from the abyss of economic and political frustrations may only be
realized through intellectual competence and calmly disciplined comprehensive foresight,
articulated through design science. When this is done by self-emancipating young world
manhood, there will be a spontaneous, natural, and lasting world peace in respect to the economic
and political affairs of men on earth.
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THE WAVE TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE CITY1
Viewed from a ship entering New York Harbor or from a plane coming in over the
city, New York appears as an enormous complex of hard, permanent towers – crystalline
asparagus. But these "permanents" are as impermanent as women's hairdos. New York City's
permanent-wave architecture is in fact a progressively rippling dynamic wave system. The last
half-century has seen three successive replacements of would-be permanent New York City
buildings.
New York is a continual evolutionary process of evacuations, demolitions, removals,
temporarily vacant lots, new installations, and repeat. This process is identical in principle to the
annual rotation of crops in farm acreage--plowing, planting the new seed, harvesting, plowing
under, and putting in another type of crop.
New York's dynamic pattern of continually accelerating transformation was entirely
unpremeditated by its static-minded, permanence-intending designers and their patrons. Up to the
time when its earliest skyscrapers were built (the first was the Tower Building at 50 Broadway,
completed in 1889 and demolished in 1914), its stone buildings, fine residences, banks, and
commercial structures were thought of by architects, owners, and the public as "permanent”
monuments of their conceivers' era. And the building arts being the most laggard of all men's
activities, this conception of buildings as "permanent" still persists in most men's minds. Most
people look upon the building operations blocking New York's streets – the piles of sand and
brick, the huge cranes fishing steel girders from curb-parked trucks – as temporary annoyances,
soon to disappear in a static peace. They still think of permanence as normal, a hangover from the
Newtonian view of the universe. But those who have lived in and with New York since the
beginning of this century have literally experienced living with Einsteinian relativity.
Said Newton, in the first phase of his first law of motion, "A body persists in a state
of rest" (and then, as an after-thought, "or in a line of motion") except as it is affected by another
body. This Newtonian norm of "at rest," which means without change, has long been the base line
of all our economic charts. From this point of view all events and their growth curves are
abnormal. On such charts the curves of industrial and economic performance rise abnormally
above, or more normally fall hack to, or parallel with, the base-line norm of "no change.” The
would-be conservators of peace and of economic health have throughout history sought to "iron
out" the abnormal humps, to "return to normal," to no change.
Einstein's relativity theory, evolved early in the century, made the static verities of
Newtonian mechanics untenable. But it took almost a half-century for the dynamics of Einstein's
relativity to emerge in the daily papers as the atomic bomb, followed by a pattern of dynamic
events clearly demonstrating that accelerating change is normal – just as normal as the human
appetite for news of the accelerating accomplishment of breakthroughs that swiftly expand man’s
domain in the universe.
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Extracted from "New York as a Focus of Energy" by R. B. Fuller, in The New York
Guidebook, edited by John A. Kouwenhoven, published by Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1964.
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To the Newtonian conservative, the deliberately accelerated obsolescence of
structures and equipment, such as we see everywhere about us in contemporary New York,
constitutes waste. To the Einsteinian conservative, obsolete structures and equipment are a new
mine of selectively concentrated chemical elements--a fundamental re-source of the industrial
commonwealth. The materials from this mine are the means of realizing ever more advanced
design out of our improving scientific potentials. As a consequence, metal scrap and plastic scrap
now recirculate increasingly.
New inventions increase our productive capacity per man-hour and per pound of
resource – our ”performance capability, “ as it is called. Every time we mine obsolete structures
or equipment for metal or plastic to use in improved designs, we get increased performance out
of the same tonnage of fundamental chemical resources. Which suggests, for instance, that we
should take all the obsolete two-ton automobiles off the road, melt them up, and produce from
the resulting scrap twice as many one-ton automobiles, each of higher “capability” than the
former cars, in terms of performance per passenger and of fuel-gallons per safely accomplished
higher-velocity mile.
All the world's great cities that grew up prior to New York were products of the
Newtonian ”no change" norms. Their romance lies in their preoccupation with man’s historical,
bastioned past. What makes New York City the "most important something" in all history is that
long before the atomic bomb hit the front page, this city had become the first great Einsteinian
reality. Its romance is its living manifestation of history continually in the making. Its streets and
districts gradually grow, swell, transform, and disappear altogether. In the "gay '90s" New
York’s great exposition and sports building on Madison Square was known as Madison Square
Garden. In 1924, the owners of that building built a new modern Madison Square Garden 1 1/4
miles north of Madison Square, on 8th Avenue. New York's Bowery, now the deadbeats'
lingering threshold to death, was once the most splendid of growing New York's districts and
boasted its Bowery Savings Bank. The Bowery Savings Bank now has its main office 5 miles
north of the Bowery on E. 42nd Street. The Madison Avenue of the "gay ’90s" meant the area
between Madison Square and 42nd Street, dominated by the J. P. Morgan residence at 38th and
Madison. Madison Avenue of the first half of the twentieth century referred to the great shopping
section from 42nd Street to 72nd Street, dominated at its base by Brooks Brothers, the Biltmore
Hotel, and the Roosevelt Hotel. So attractive did the Madison Avenue vantage appear to so many
corporate newcomers that they, in effect, have pulled down all the old buildings and thus
terminated all the old enterprises that constituted Madison Avenue. They have built a new
canyon in the universe, whose preoccupation with the abstract function of shaping men's
conditionable reflexes, through advertising, has caused the words "Madison Avenue" to hold an
entirely new meaning--having nothing to do with a physical avenue itself but with their
”corporate image”--the collective archpropagandist, proselytizer, inducer, and seducer.
Propaganda, like most of New York’s manufactured products, has little weight or
physical substance. Pittsburgh produces steel; Chicago warehouses wheat, steel, and cattle. New
York manufactures pattern abstractions. London's stock market, the Paris Bourse, and other
world exchanges long predate New York in the exchange of abstract enterprise equities, but New
York today centralizes all the world's anticipatory discounting of forwardly reckonable values.
The United Nations' world headquarters came naturally to New York as the world's
most concentrated pattern-processing and exchanging center. New York is today the world's
chief publishing headquarters, its leading drama and art market. One Oklahoma stockyard, last
year, collected and sent forward to the slaughter house a nose-to-tail chain of cattle 550 miles
long. New York’s 2, 000, 000 typewriters and calculating
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machines last year produced rows of letters and figures long enough to run twenty ribbons
between the planets Earth and Venus when these two are in closest proximity.
The ideas in which New York traffics emanate from all around the earth. It is the
world's greatest import-export idea exchange. New York is not an idea factory, nor an idea mine,
nor an idea garden, but it is the world's point of highest velocity in idea exchanging. As such,
New York is the world's greatest traffic center in hopes and fears, valid or invalid.
There are but relatively few native New Yorkers. Its population is transient. The
average residence is three years. Visitors to New York from around the world frequently assert
antipathy to New York’s coldness and bigness. They have not seen the New York we have been
describing. They have seen one frame of a moving picture. It looks static. Only the old-time New
Yorkers can know the great transforming dynamics and, more importantly, the city's myriad of
rich abstract resources. Because pure abstractions such as love, hate, happiness, and inspiration
are as invisible as they are nonmerchandisable, all the real meaning of New York is both invisible
and nonmarketed. The lucky few millions who are old-time New Yorkers usually love New York
passionately for they know not why specifically.
While the statistical voices warn us that the world population threatens to crowd itself
off the earth, it is comforting to discover that New York City's buildings could contain the whole
population of the earth with no more crowding than that experienced at a cocktail party – not
room for anyone to lie down but all under cover. New York is so knit together with underground
wires, tubes, cables, and pipes – that in effect Manhattan Island could be lifted in one piece and
stood upon end, its roadways and tunnels acting as its supporting columns with Battery Park on
top and Harlem at its base. In such a position its subways would become elevators and its
elevators subway shuttles.
Its street level is not the bottom level of New York. Legal statutes adopted by early
Knickerbocker burghers required that when the utility companies dug up its streets and inserted
pipes, cables, and subways, they should thereafter put all the same earth back where they found it
and the city would then resurface it. This the public utilities have done to the letter. The earth
tucked back into the street is no more the earth's natural top crust than is the earth tucked into the
flower pots high above in Manhattan's skyscraper apartments. The concrete and steel intrusions,
below the streets and buildings, have become so multitudinous and penetrate at so many levels
that they reach hundreds of feet below the theoretical surface. Like an iceberg, structural and
mechanical Manhattan is now chiefly below the surface.
Old-time New Yorkers remember the unique commercial districts--the leather district
around Gold Street; the tea and spice districts along Water, Front, and Pearl Streets; the cotton
and linen district on White Street; the machinery exchanges of Lafayette Street; and the great
Gansevoort, Washington, and Manhattan market districts. These districts have been almost
wholly diffused into uptown invisible districts. The real long-time New Yorker knows, however,
that nothing has gone from New York and that its interests have multiplied a thousandfold. The
unique vortexes continually transform and interchange.
Old-world church and cathedral spires were originally conceived and built to reach
high above the surrounding houses and stores. In New York one can look down from on high into
a deep valley wherein miniscule spires reach up from the bottom like fine jewelry spicules, for,
unlike business enterprises, the churches have usually been unable
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to move and have been swallowed by the commercial avalanche, being no longer the centers of
their parish dwellings. But their spires as yet inspire when, in our thoughts, our eyes wander
down into those New York deeps wherein approximately all that is physically left of yesterday is
wedded with the physical of today, and we remember that we are as yet "quick" and not dead, and
that yesterday only the dead were normal, and that New York City is now being synchronized
with the dynamism of the quick whose norm is Einstein's C2, that is 186,000 times 186,000 miles
per second, the normal rate at which we see. "I lift up mine eyes unto the hills whence cometh my
help”--possibly because, of all our faculties, it is only our eyes that can apprehend the distant
presence of the high hills – a presence of which we are informed by radiation from the sun,
reflected from the hills to our eyes at 186,000 miles per second, all of which seems so
instantaneous that we mistakenly say that we ”lift our eyes." And we know that no man – no mere
human being--invented that velocity, nor its reliable regularity throughout the full spectrum range
of all electromagnetic wave phenomena, nor the regularity of its ultra-high frequency intertrafficking.
Men of yesterday looked outward self-helplessly to the macrocosm, praying for
miraculous salvation; today they look inward self-disciplinedly to the nuclear microcosm for vast
sources of reliable physical power. What men thought they understood yesterday of their local
experiences seemed regular, orderly, and logical; what they did not comprehend, extending
outward to the macrocosm and inward to the microcosm, they thought of as turbulent, random,
and chaotic.
Men of the Einstein Age are discovering the universal orderliness of constant,
comprehensive transformation, utterly transcendental in the exquisite and magnificent orderliness
of its wavelength and frequency when compared to the crude, disorderly, conscious thinking and
articulation of mere humans.
And as the bees intent upon their honey-commerce are utterly unaware of the
pollination-function of their bumbling tails, which inadvertently and unbeknownst to the bees
service the organization of tomorrow's flowers and honey sources, so are the little local real estate
manipulators and separate venture builders who redot the New York City map utterly unaware of
their part in the – only retrospectively scannable – comprehensive orderliness of New York City's
transformative growth. That growth is an invisible function of all men's experience of all history,
translated now into the world-surrounding, dynamically functioning industrial network-system in
which New York City is, for the moment, the most radiant communication-relaying center on
planet Earth.
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GEOSOCIAL REVOLUTION
Synopsis
A half century of subconsciously developing world revolution is now crossing the
threshold into human consciousness and ultimate popular support. The heretofore subconscious
world revolution may well become the conscious focus of effort of the International Cooperation
Year.
The ICY-1965 itself has been indirectly occasioned by the subconsciously occurring
techno-scientific revolution and its myriad of separate world around transformations of human
ecology.
The unheralded human ecology transformations have developed only as inadvertent,
unanticipated, interactions of individually undertaken uncoordinated inventions.
The independent, physical environment reforming inventions have integrated,
figuratively speaking, as streamliningly divided, double-decked, banked and cloverleafed lifeways of human behaviours. These lifeways permit ever increasing numbers of
humans to survive logically and sense-satisfyingly without mutually frustrating interferences.
There are two main classes of inventions, – those which increase and those which
decrease the degrees of freedoms. Because men are born immobolized, there are few invention
opportunities for his increased immobilization. These are prisons, traps, straight-jackets,
handcuffs, and caskets. On the other hand, there are an infinity of opportunities to invent man's
increased mobilization – all the way up to the speed of light-186, 000 mps. and in all directions.
Means-of-increased-freedom inventing is irreversible.
Inventions occur when individuals, frustrated by circumstance, eschew
negative blaming and undertake positive physical environment reforms rather than
abstract human reforms. The latter depend precariously only upon moral, ethical and
legal.codes which are enforceable only by negative penalties.
The silent preoccupations of the artist-scientist, whose inventions subsequently
permit mankind to realize his innate potentials, without interference with others, are
in marked contrast to political behaviourisms. Political theories apparently assume that there is no
alternative to the word, fist and bullet battles between opposing ideologies. Each ideology seeks
to reform man. They scheme and labor to impose their respective viewpoints by omni-interfering
political, moral, psychological persuasions, furtive corruptions, bullyings, or punishments.
Both professional and amateur spokesmen for society apparently assume that the
political battles will persist until man annihilates himself. The only considered alternative, happy
or unhappy according to the individual's viewpoint, is that one bias or another will gain sufficient
advantage to be able to dictate the terms of mankind's reprieve from total extinction. We don't
agree. We think that there is a third eventuality wherein the political chaos will fade out – in ways
entirely unpremeditated by political man – as the invention order looms in. Geosocial Revolution
explores the possibility that the non-political surprise has already occurred and will soon be
increasingly visible to all.
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GEOSOCIAL REVOLUTION
Introduction
The International Cooperation Year of the United Nations came into being as a
consequence of the great and surprising success of the two International Geophysical Yearwherein world scientists transcending political ideologies established an historical beach-head in
the integrity of the emerging World Man's behavior.
The International Cooperating of Humanistic concerns is far more difficult and
complex. Each human is a whole universe and there are now over three billion of them around the
world.
Science is inherently observational and theoretical. Science is committed only to the
discovery of energy and mathematical behaviours of physical universe. It is left to the integrity of
internationally cooperating technology and humanities to advantageously integrate the scientific
findings with human behaviours. ICY-1965 must invent objective applications of the discovered
knowledge in such ways for instance as, hopefully, never to exhaust the new found resources
while also turning them to physical improvement of man's survival. It is also left to
internationally cooperating technology to formulate effective strategies for increasing the physical
advantages while decreasing the physical inter-restraints of both individual and collective
humanity. ICY technology must at the same time safeguard future humanity's welfaring.
It becomes swiftly clear that to make equivalent contributions to those of IGY, ICY
must develop technological strategems which will have the same powerful scientific foundations
as those of the Geophysical Years.
Through employment of the scientifically gained data and the generalized physical
principles therefrom derived, it behooves the Internationally Cooperating Technology
of ICY to establish a continuously self-increasing, per capita, metabolic (energy process)
advantage of humanity over its a priori and forever evoluting environment. The cry goes up:
"Haven't you ever heard of the Second Law of Thermodynamics which predicts the inexorable
energy loss of entropy--from all local systems of universe? You can’t increase advantages!"
(Entropy is also known mathematically as the "Law of Increase of the Random Elements) The
answer goes back: "Have you never heard of the Law of Conservation of Energy, which says – in
terms of the empirically indicated finite physical universe--'energy may neither be created nor
lost’." Energy is shown experimentally as only accomplishing disassociation here through
entirely orderly regrouping or association there. Energy transactions are 100 per cent accountable.
Every action has its reaction and resultant, and every nuclear component has its positive or
negative opposite with each reversing every characteristic of the other. In this dynamically
opposed system the Geosocial Year can find the scientific fundamentals of its logical extension of
the work of the Geophysical Years. The scientific connector between the IGY and the ICY lies in
the answer to the question: has man a function in the universe and if so, what is it? Norbert
Wiener and others said "Yes." We will now trace that connection and function.
In dynamical balance with the inside-outing, expanding universe, man witnesses
Earth as a collecting or outside-inning, contracting phase, of universe. In addition to its daily sun
radiation income Earth receives a continually increasing inventory of radiation
in its lethal, energy concentrates sifting, sorting, and accumulating Van Allen Belts. The
succession of concentric terrestrial spheres, e. g.; ionosphere, troposphere et al., constitute an
extraordinary series of random-to-orderly sorting, shunting, partially accumulating
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and partially forwarding--inwardly and finally to benign state in the biosphere--of Earth’s
continual, universal, energy income receipts. Earth also receives an additional one hundred
thousand tons of stardust daily. This randomly deposited dust apparently consists of all the 92
regeneratively patterning, chemical elements in approximately the same order of relative
abundance as the relative abundance of those elements in the thus far inventoried reaches of
universe. The biological life on Earth is inherently anti-entropic for it negotiates the chemical
sorting out of the Earth crust's chemical element inventory and rearranges the atoms in elegantly
ordered molecular compound patternings. Of all the biological anti-entropics, i. e., random-toorderly arrangers, man's intellect is by far the most active, exquisite, and effective agent thus far
in evidence in universe. Through intellect, man constantly succeeds in inventing technological
means of doing evermore orderly – i. e., more efficient, local universe, energy tasks with ever
less units of investments of the (what may be only apparently) "randomly" occurring resources
of energy, as atomic matter, or energy, as channeled electro-magnetics.
During the International Geophysical Year, world around science coordinatingly
charted vast physical pattern behaviors within and around Earth, such as magnetic fields and
comprehensive world earthquake patternings. All of the vast geophysical systems were
sponanteously acknowledged by scientific man to be operative in nature, before men discovered
and charted their behaviors.
Man--the scientist – has no ego problem in acknowledging the a priori existence in
universe of a myriad of energy patterns whose existence and behaviors constitute the life
permitting and sustaining energy environment.
Contrariwise, man--the humanist--feels it degrading to his ego to acknowledge the a
priori existence of social and economic patternings operative around Earth which develop,
evolve, and transform transcendentally to his conscious contriving. To do so seems to admit to a
naive subscription to super-natural phenomena. Man's vanity tends swiftly to lay personal,
corporate, partisan, or national claim upon all the man-advantaging events and equally swift
claim to exoneration from any and all humanly disadvantageous events. This positive and
negative ego claiming is an historically conditioned social reflex, which springs directly from
man's fear of death in face of all the yesterdays' 99 per cent probability of premature and painful
demise. When yesterday’s environment failed to disclose, superficially, the means by which 99
per cent might survive or avoid deterioration and pain, a few by superior physical strength,
cunning, and insensitivity could command the 1 percent survival support for themselves and a
few associates. Though spontaneous, positive-negative ego claiming probably developed in
many ways, a typical cause was that which showed that the most brazen pretense and artifice
frequently persuaded the dull brains of the strong-armed survival-commanding bullies, that the
latter's chances of maintaining
their survival would be enhanced by adding the persuading individuals, at least temporarily, to
their band of supportable cohorts. This rationalized myth-formulating was for various causes
grafted deeply in the human defense mechanism as a post-natal, reflex system, relayingly
triggered from life to life – usually in the earliest childhood of those whose spontaneous trust in
the integrity of understanding between themselves and their parents was repeatingly violated to
critical degree. To gain workable understandings for moment to moment situations they
invented, at least temporarily effective stories.
Human myths and self-deceptive rationalizations have so permeated custom and
culture as, thus far historically, to have prevented the social scientists from "seeing themselves"
with sufficient objectivity to permit their differentiating out from the social developments all
those larger patterns of human behavior which were not consciously premeditated by men. The
scientists recognize the individual’s subconsciously controlled behaviors, but over and above
outright human panic at catastrophe, the unconsciously articulated self82
starterings and coordination controls of group behaviors are sometimes not well, and often not at
all, understood.
For technology and the humanities of the I. C. Y. to match in any way the integrities
of pattern discovering demonstrated throughout by the physical scientists, the technologists and
humanists of the I. C. Y. will have to concentrate on the geosocial, instead of the egosocial. The I.
C. Y. participants, at the outset, will have to acknowledge that mankind, like all the other living
species, has its ultra-shortsighted, built-in "desire" drives, as well as its longer distance ”needs,"
both of which cause each species to pursue its ”honey" as does the bumblebee, while
inadvertently and unconsciously performing myriads of other tasks designed by nature, which
unknown to the separate creature species are all essential to realization of the regenerative
continuance of the much larger survival support conditions for all life. Thus does the bumblebee’s
un-viewed, unwitting, bumbling tail bump into and knock off male pollen, which it later, and
again inadvertently, knocks off upon the female, botanical organs thus unconsciously
participating in a vastly complex ecological interaction of the many energy processing biochemical "gears" of the total life system, dynamically constituted by all the living species. The
myriad inadvertencies of all the living species have sum totally provided a metabolically
sustaining and regenerative topsoil process which – it is realized now, but only by our
retrospectively gained knowledge – has kept man regeneratively alive on Earth for at least two
million years, while ever improving his physical survival advantages and increasing his longevity.
This vast "game playing" of life has also indirectly occasioned, not only the
regenerative multiplication of human beings, but also a progressively increasing percentage who
survive in conditions of ever improving physical advantage. It is probable that 99 per cent of all
history's human babies have been inadvertently conceived as a consequence only of the human's
preoccupation with their momentary ”desire" drives. That man in his rationalizations has
explained this regenerative drive to himself only mythically and negatively as the "original sin"
wraps up all the ego-claiming or disclaiming into one, typical, nonsense conditioned, reflex
package, which the I. C.Y. cooperators must discard altogether in order to free their brains and
minds to identify the vast human ecology transforming forces comprehensively in operation about
Earth.
The human ecology transforming forces are as real and as important to life on Earth
as are the Van Allen Radiation Inhibiting Belts surrounding Earth. The human ecology
transforming forces are nonetheless as foreign to man's consciousness as have been the Van Allen
Belts, both of which have been unknown to man’s knowledge throughout all but the last decades
of the known two million years of man's presence on Earth.
Geosocial Revolution is a tentative inventory of those heretofore invisible, technoeconomic, world-force-fields now looming tentatively into view. These hereto-fore invisible,
evolutionary systems' tidalwaves once discovered and studied apparently disclose nature's
scheme, not only for successfully sustaining human life on Earth – despite the inertial negatives
and shortsightedness of man's arrogant ignorance – but also the scheme by which nature will
permit man to henceforth participate consciously in ever less meager degree in his prosperous
continuance on Earth, which he will occupy as a planetary base for his larger operations in
universe. These forces and their trendings become the logical pattern developments to be served
by all those taking the conscious initiative in promulgating world man's comprehensive
advantaging through the International Cooperation Year.
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GEOSOCIAL REVOLUTION
Though dwarfing all other of history's revolutions in relative magnitude of
transformation of human affairs in universe, the vital characteristics and overall involvements of
the twentieth century revolution have gone on entirely unapprehended for one half of a century.
So vast and historically unfamiliar are the revolution’s ramifications, that the narrow foci of
contemporary specializations have failed to perceive, recognize, categorize, and integrate its
widely ranging components. Though everyone recognizes that a "World Revolution of some kind
is going on"--such a concept is exclusively a post-world-war-two cognition. Meetings of
intellectual, business, and government leaders are convened with increasing frequency on the
subject of the "impingement of science and technology on human affairs." These meetings
demonstrate that the nature of the greatest revolution in history, which had been developing
powerfully for a half century before the meetings, is only now entering the comprehending
aware-ness of man. Th title of the meetings disclose that men are only now asking questions,
which seek to understand the specific nature of the revolution.
Because the revolution's characteristics have not even now been defined, we can say
that its first half century has been as subconsciously operative, in respect to world society's
thoughts and deliberations., as are a child’s day-to-day size growth and the transforming pattern
of the Earth's magnetic field, both transcendental to the child's thoughts and plans. Though
articulated piecemeal by men themselves, it is safe to say that the first half century of this greatest
world revolution has developed without men's conscious awareness either of its existence or of
their part in it.
It was possible for this invisibly developing revolution to happen because every
separate event was--in respect to the revolution--entirely unpremeditated by man --ergo
inadvertent. Each unplanned revolution interlinkage was entirely uncorrelated with the other
inadvertencies.
Since the revolution has developed inexorably without benefit of man's conscious
planning it must, in due course, be recognized as constituting sum totally a process of nature as
transcendental to man's consciously assumed responsibilities as are the Earth's seasons, whose
behaviors however may some day be consciously modified by man. In the same way, the great
twentieth century revolution's comprehensively uncontrolled development may come under
progressively favorable modification and control by man. Such inexorable, overwhelming and
invisibly developing events of nature are of the same order of importance as are conception, birth,
and death--they constitute in fact total social conceptioning and rebirth with total death or
obsolescence of the outworn concepts of social preoccupations.
The human inadvertencies, which altogether add up to the world history's greatest
single revolution in human affairs, were executed, separately, each unbeknownst to the others, by
a hundred thousand (approximately) of the world's industrial corporations--private or state--the
abstract, limited human liability inventions of lawyers or government planners--which during the
last half century undertook, corporately, as prime or subcontractors, to supply all the world's most
powerful nations with the multi-trillion dollar price tagged flow of technological goods, which
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constituted the swiftly evoluting weaponry systems of those nations. The contracts included the
invention, research, development, and production of all the swiftly transforming evolution in
support mechanisms, consisting of the tools-that-made-the-tools that eventually made and
maintained as operative the omni-automated, design regenerating, massive retaliation
capabilities, in comprehensive world-space weaponry systems.
The inadvertencies, which unknowingly initiated the transcendental revolution,
occurred as, one by one in the course of events, each of the world around corporations' separate
contracts were terminated by the world nations’ defense departments--due to the progressive
obsoleting of their products by the next invention-generations in the swiftly evoluting weapons
and tool designs. The inadvertencies occurred as each of the previous weaponry or tools-tomake-tools-to-make-weapons contractors made separate, fortuitous, corporately independent
reorientations of their survival strategies and contrived new end-products of their as yet only
semi-obsolete, tooled-up, and scientifically staffed production capabilities--converting them
from the outpouring of weaponry systems devices to production of the myriad of mechanical
and structural items, gadgets, and knickknacks for the ”home front"--the "everyday-living"
market--which latter we have, for economy of expression, designated comprehensively as
”livingry"--in contradistinction to scientific technology's original focus of all of its productive
capability in "weaponry. "
Weaponry, born of man's necessity to anticipate high frequency life or death crises
in a world of seeming universal inadequacy of vital essentials--best phrased by Darwin as
"survival of the fittest”--always had priority of access to the highest performance physical and
cerebral resources present within mankind's as yet discovered and comprehended environment.
Priorities for weaponry required sacrifice of access to resources for all the nonpriority claiming individual human needs and desires, the seemingly deferrable and less
important survival and development activities. As engineers have learned, every action has its
reaction as well as resultants, wherefore all priorities must involve anti-priorities. The homefront has always been the antipriority area. From man’s person-al home and family life the
reserves of effort, savings, and anticipatory capability to meet inexorable crises have always
been commandeered to meet the seemingly common enemy. Therefore highest priorities have
only been invoked to establish the highest scientific-industrialization capabilities which alone
could best produce ever higher, swifter, more powerful, longer distance, and more accurately
hitting weaponry for anticipatory defense of the ”have" minorities against the "have-not"
majorities, who--in desperation of birth into a world of seemingly overpowering inadequacy of
metabolic -sustenance and regeneration of life--must periodically join their have-not numbers to
revolt against the inferior-numbered "haves. " Thus far in history weaponry has always been
accorded priority over livingry.
That scientific industrialization would have a by-product capability to produce
livingry was not foreseen. Nor was it foreseen that the development of scientific
industrialization to produce special end-product weaponry would generate a comprehensive
train of ever more generalized tools to make the tools, which finally made the special tools, that
made the ever more fleeting special models of the latest weaponry. The vast generalized tool
base of the scientific industrialization which would accrue inadvertently as a consequence of the
focusing of both enterprise and government subsidies exclusively upon the end products--the
special weapons--was utterly unforeseen.
It was thought by yesterday's ”Ins” that their fortresses would be forever
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impregnable.
Battleships, it was thought, would be good for generations. It was not realized that
every battleship would be obsolete before it was finished. The integrated consequences of all the
separate, fortuitous, uncoordinated reorientations of all the world’s weaponry producing
contractors, applying their do-vastly-more-with-vastly-less capabilities to man's domestic needs
was to effect an utterly unplanned alteration of man's historical relationship to his environment.
Ecology is the name for the science which studies the patterns of life in respect to the
environment. The human ecological transformation consequences of the Twentieth Century
Revolution are so enormous that in the last generation of man on Earth, they have increased one
hundred-fold the hitherto unvarying, multi-million year, man-on-Earth, average mileage of a
human lifetime's total locomotion--which was approximately 30, 000 miles--and has already
become 3, 000, 000 miles for millions of humans--and will increase that lifetime mileage one
thousand-fold in the present generation and million-fold it in the next.
So great has been the fundamental ignorance of man and so formidable has been the
improbability of happy survival of the preponderance of mankind, that his conditioned reflexes
would never have permitted mankind's lucid, world around foresight nor his adequately
accredited, organized generations of coordinated work, sacrifice, and dedication to be amassed to
the degree necessary to his accomplishment, peace-fully, and consciously of the present level of
scientific industrialization capabilities and world around resources integration--at which level it
now is becoming visible for the first time that man can and may become a comprehensive and
continuing physical success in the universe.
As with the bumblebee--of our introduction--preoccupied with his honey seeking-whose tail inadvertently brushes about the pollens to fertilize the botanical members of the omniregenerative metabolic processes of the total integrated ecologies of all species--so have fear
motivated man's negative preoccupations, in weaponry anticipations, inadvertently established the
positively reactive technological mastery of universal energies to the degree adequate to
elimination of the want which originally had necessitated the weapons.
Specifically--the revolution of inadvertencies has resulted, all unplanned, in doing so
much more-with-so-much-less that--despite swiftly multiplying world population and swiftly
dwindling per capita metallic resources--that the percentage of all man-kind participating--at the
standard-of-living of a modern U. S. A. industrial worker's family (or better), --one so much
improved in physical advantages as to have been undreamed of even by the world's richest and
most powerful men of 1900 A. D. --has risen from less than one per cent of all humanity to fortyfour per cent within the first two-thirds of the twentieth century. Thus almost one-half of all
humanity--whose total yesterdays were poverty stricken, illiterate, diseased, and ruthlessly
exploited by the "fortunate" strong arm few--has been suddenly and inadvertently catalyzed into a
pattern of physical success. This success of the 44 per cent is probably also to be achieved for 100
per cent of humanity well before the twentieth century's close.
No world leaders planned this integrated success of man--neither economists nor
philosophers predicted it. None gave their lives for it--consciously. Unconsciously, however,
everyone in all history gave their lives for it. There is, therefore, a deep subconscious passion in
man which now stimulates his intuitions to strike for realization of the historically held
“impossible" and now looming reality of physical success for all humanity.
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While the first half of this revolution was unrecognized and uncoordinated--ergo
only subconsciously achieved--the second half will be consciously coordinated--for man is now
beginning to realize vaguely, but nonetheless realistically, that he need not wait upon the
politically organized, fear-mandated-defense underwriting of science and technology – to
accelerate the doing of more with less in weaponry only, which is only thereafter to be secondhanded into his piecemeal domestic advantaging a quarter of a century--i. e., a human
generation--later, and only thereafter in turn to multiply the numbers of humanity to be served at
ever higher standard, with ever less resources per each and every function. Despite the
inexorably gaining bounty of the previously unapprehended revolution, the majority of humans
are as yet poverty stricken ”Have Nots. " But there is now fortunately visible a means of swiftly
accelerating the process of converting the remainder of humanity to high standard "Haveness."
This is the specific task to which the U. N. ’s International Cooperation Year must address itself.
While the powerful, scientific, computer ’implemented theory of Generalized
Systems Controls governed the consciously integrated weapons delivery systems, the
inadvertent, uncoordinated, fortuitous reorientation of the contractors' tooled-up capabilities to
exploit the separate human home-needs markets was never advantaged by the efficiency of a
generalized livingry coordinating system, nor by the latter day powerful expansion and
refinement--at the astronomical scope and level of generalized systems theory capabilities
realizable only through computerization.
Unlike the home building market, both the communications industry (--"Tel and
Tel"--) and the transportation industry have benefited by the general systems controls adopted to
weaponry systems, simply because mails, telephones, telegraphs, cables, wireless, railroads,
ships, autos, and trucks were--and as yet are--vital parts of the operational weapons delivery and
support systems themselves.
Though today American Telephone and Telegraph and General Motors Corporation
are far out in front in computerized general systems controls of their respective operations,
Henry Ford, Sr., was the pioneer in the long range, world around, historical development of the
application of the tools-to-make-tools system of mass production to large end product tools, such
as the motorized road vehicles – for mass production had long before been applied to small
things, such as pins, army rifles, and watches. The pre-mass production use of the principle of
the moving production line, and its large scale jigs, fixtures, templates, and massive power tools
and cranes was developed centuries earlier in the production of ships on cradles on marine
railways whose launched hulls moved around to outfitting docks, and around the world to
receive their final full rigged capabilities.
In the twentieth century’s fifty years of world revolution generating inadvertencies,
all that the separate prime weaponry technology contractors attempted – in turning to domestic
outlets for their government financed capability-augmentations – was to produce domestic items
suitable for profitable processing by their unique tools. Giant electric generators, steam boilers,
electric lights, radios, oil burners, refrigerators, air conditioners were originally developed and
used only as battleship equipment. Such items were easily converted to domestic use. But many
of the potentially useful domestic field capabilities were not originally obvious.
The prime technology contractors’ reorientations to domestic products were usually
successful because their advanced technology could, for instance, readily re-place the inferior
materials used in yesterday's individual building components without altering the familiar
building forms and procedures in any fundamental way. They
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produced improved wall panels, partitions, office furniture, stoves, window hardware, aluminum
shingles, etc.
But no emergency mandated authority existed, such as the national defense or the
military--in respect to the vast weapons-delivery-systems of the integrated national defense
systems of the U. S. S. R. or U. S. A. --to comprehensively organize and oversee the industrial
contractors' scientific development and production capabilities under a comprehensively
coordinated world system, designed specifically to make all men on Earth a physical success-while at the same time increasing each individual’s degrees of freedom while also ever lessening
their inter-trespassing upon one another --and to do so without at the same time raping Earth of its
fundamental resources or robbing man of inspiring antiquities or of further restimulating
environmental challenges and riches, both abstract and physical.
No scientifically informed and popularly mandated authority existed or as yet exists
which adequately comprehends the immediately developing overall world revolution in design
science concepts and world scale logistical capabilities development. Such an authority must first
emerge to effectively convert the building world from the most ignorant and self-corrupting
exploitation of all the yesterday's ever desperate needs of man--to be now converted into the most
comprehensively effective and successful enjoyment of life in universe by all of humanity. As we
shall see, such an authority is even now emergent in the I. C. Y. and other developments.
Yesterday's scientifically organized weaponry contractors--whose whole
development had been subsidized and developed by the national defense authorities--never had to
risk their judgment on the selection of the weaponry items to be produced. That was the
prerogative of the national defense authorities whose reasons were often obscured by top-secret
classifications. When the prime technology contractors converted their exploitable tool-ups into
production of livingry items, they assumed that all the building items had been wisely selected for
production.
The ex-weaponry, prime contractors are the cast-off, long-time "kept mistresses” of
the sovereign nations. The ex-prime contractors familiar with the grand strategies of the
intimately coordinated, scientifically evolved and unitarily commanded national and allied
defense systems--assumed that their new master, the building industry, like their old master, the
National Defense Department, must of course have a grand, logically coordinate strategy. Both
the weaponry and ex-weaponry contractors have assumed, therefore, that their long preoccupation
with weaponry was, and is as yet, alone responsible for their ignorance of the building industry's
organizational ramifications and general scientific conceptioning. Naively the weaponry
contractors say, "All industries must of course be governed by a comprehensive system.” They
don't know that the unsystematized, happenstance building activity was so inefficient and
uncoordinated that it went utterly bankrupt in 1929; and that ever since its real-estator operated,
anarchistic plunging is entirely subsidized by several hundred billion dollars underwriting of the
U. S. Government, because the building activity's overall, unplanned mushrooming and technical
inefficiency has no true objectives against which to measure its gains, ergo no possible innate
profits and enterprise attractions. The real estate world is a capital cash-in and is sustained only
by capital loss. Real estators buzzard the dilemmas of humanity’s constantly increasing dwelling
and workspace needs by bull-dozing orchards, laying in water and sewer lines, and throwing up
boxes. Their overall unplanned exploitation is so shortsightedly costly to society that the multihundred billion dollar government mortgage guarantee underwriting is in reality a commonwealth
capital loss that is adjusted progressively by generation long deferments of the ultimate
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reckoning of the cost to world society and its progeny. These deferments are accomplished by
local and federal government bond issues, guarantees, etc. The multi hundred billion dollar real
loss that is mounting will never be paid off nor recoverable.
The indebtedness is carried however on the government books as a momentarily
lucrative debt-service generator that drives vast billions of interest payment dollars annually
into the macro-cities banking systems’ expansion--and into the latter to a ridiculous degree in
which colossally sumptuous branch banks are erected in almost every "big city" block. New
York, New York, has possibly more big name branch banks than 5 and 10¢ stores.
The prime technology contractors, veering from weaponry into livingry, accept
blindly the ”so-called” building ”industry's" product categories as having been scientifically
conceived--whereas the fact is that livingry as the historical antipriority is a bedlam of lesswith-more make-do's, fortuitously contrived with the lowest capability resource left-overs,
wrapped up in religious, and aesthetic orders of classical-modern interior and exterior symbolic
distinction superficialities.
No Ph.D. scientist has ever been retained to consider the general systems theory
governing establishment of the potentially successful, life of all men around Earth – let alone
retained to look at a toilet. No architect or builder knows what buildings weigh--they have never
heard of performance per pound.
The rocket capsule that will keep man living successfully in space for protracted
periods, entirely remote from the sewer and other service mains, will be the first "scientific
dwelling” in history. The prototype of the little 300 pound black box, which will reduce the
metabolic regenerative system, as now operative on Earth from a one mile diameter ecologically
accomplished chemical-energy exchange complex, to a four foot diameter rocket capsule energy
regenerating accessory, will cost in the neighborhood of seven billion dollars. Once produced
and successfully "operative, " its replicas may be mass reproduced for $2 per pound, i. e., for
$600. With such an integrated chemical-energy regenerator taking care of all sanitary and
energy generating requirements of family living, men may deploy almost invisibly to the remote
beauty spots about the Earth in air-delivered geodesically enclosed dwelling machines and
survive with only helicopter and TV intercommunication at luxuriously simplified high
standards of living--operative at negligible land anchorage cost similar to telephone service
charges.
Because of the dawning awareness that the weaponry phase and its quarter century
lag can be eliminated, this second half of the tool invention revolution is to be identified as the
consciously undertaken continuance of the accelerated doing more with less by world society as
world society led by I. C. Y. becomes aware that man's comprehensive physical success is not
only possible, but that it can only be accomplished through design science competence. To do
so, design science now emergent in university research activities encouraged by I. C. Y. will
first develop the comprehensive, computerized programming of the general livingry system.
World coordination of the design systems development is to be administered--as will be seen
later--by spontaneously self-organized university students whose world around design science
coordinating authority, because of the inherent primacy of physical capability in energy
universe, will progressively displace the sovereign nation's political authorities who, until
yesterday, have administered the regeneratively self-improving more with less system,
exclusively on behalf of their respective separate national defenses, on the assumption that there
was not enough of world resources to take care of even one half of humanity, .
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wherefore, it was also assumed that: War for survival was and would be forever a
necessary characteristic of mankind.
This, the ultimate revolution, now to be resolved only by scientific inventing and
engineering competence of the young world in general, instead of by the now outmoded and
obsolete political initiatives, will swiftly bring about high standard survival for all and thereby the
elimination of the former political recourse only to preparatorily acquired weaponry and to the
now untenable assumption that survival can only be justified by elimination--on the battlefield or
in the slums' lower velocity rot-rate--of the unsupportable excess of human population.
Through design science, the common success of all men is guaranteed which, for the
first time in history, eliminates the factors – to contend with which--all the world nations' defense
systems were established.
Responsibility for development of the scientific invention competence is being
spontaneously assumed, in ever increasing degree, since 1961, by the world around students in
the professions--at first in architecture, engineering, and science. They are now being joined by
university students of all kinds and will not be vastly encouraged by I. C. Y. support of their
initiative.
Politics will play its future part which, however, is only a secondary service--a
stewardess function--of polite supervision of the passengers' "adjusting of their seat belts" for the
great world "take-off" for physical success of all mankind. But be-fore the inventing youth can
seize the initiative from world politicians to make the great flight to comprehensive success, they
must--figuratively speaking, only--first state clearly to themselves and to the world what the
design science problem consists of. The problem includes the parameters of generalized,
anticipatory, comprehensive system theory. Students will then invent, calculate, and design (a)
the development, (b) production, and (c) operational tune-up of the million-types-of-parts
prototype of the as yet nonexistent "one-thousand passenger, vertical take-off, rocket ships. "
Within this hypothetical invention we package the myriad of do-more-with-less, design science
inventions, innovations or reorganizations with which the revolution can be won for all humanity-within twenty years, if all goes well--and as it is now augured by the swiftly progressive
realization of the true nature of the problem by the world students.
Paris, France, July, 1965, will be a prime focus of the largest world travel in the
history of man. Paris will provide in July a most spectacular world stage. Upon this stage the I. C.
Y. technology committee and the comprehensive world economies initiative seizing students have
chosen to inaugurate their Design Science Revolution. They will do so under the auspices of their
International Union of Architects, the only world organization of professional architecture whose
members co-represent all sides of all the political curtains. As the university students present their
first stage statement of their five stage, ten year overall, planned world design revolution, they
will have an extraordinary opportunity to catch the world's attention with their surprisingly
discovered and lucid truth that." "The one and only world revolution which is omnipolitically
tolerable is now underway and is visible to all the world at the I. C. Y. encouraged students'
exhibit at the International Union of Architects’ Eighth World Congress now meeting right here
in Paris. "
This is a superb opportunity to clarify for all humanity that the fundamental and prior
problem of man's surviving successfully on this little sun-orbiting space ship, "Earth, " cannot be
solved by political theory and is not to be left to the politician's
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ultimate lever--war--hot, subversive, cold, or cool.
Because the revolution is so large, selection by man of the natural and best, timing
and place for public birth of its conscious promulgation is difficult to judge. Paris 1965 may not
be the right ripe moment. If so, the I. C. Y. and the students will make presentation after
presentation the world around, until the concept of the scale and import of the revolution are
publicly realized. Both the I. C. Y. technology committee and the students see that the world’s
prime, vital problem bears repeating a million times. It is: How to triple swiftly, safely, and
satisfyingly, the overall performance realizations per pound, kilowatts, and manhours of the
world's comprehensive resources. To do so will render those resources--which at the present
design level can support only 44 per cent of humanity--capable of supporting 100 per cent of
humanity's increasing population at higher standards of living than any human minority or single
individual has ever known or dreamed of, To thus concentrate on the mastery of the physical
service of man will also have its inadvertent profit increment, for to master the physical-intellectually--will bring into human intercourse a level of integrity of exploration of the
metaphysical capabilities of man and the metaphysical ramifications of universe also heretofore
undreamed of by man.
Science and engineering say this is eminently feasible. lt is feasible because the
world's economy is now operating at an appallingly low overall mechanical efficiency level in
which the machines realize, in energy work done, only one twenty-fifth--i. e., 4 per cent of the
potential of the thus wastefully consumed energy, while the structures of the environmental
controls, housing the machines and the regenerative human ecology, realize less than 1 per cent
overall structural efficiency in respect to the now known structural capabilities in cubic feet, per
ounces of materials controlled, per units of labor time, and per given protection or advantage
function; i.e., we could build one hundred comparably volumed and useful buildings out of the
same weight, time, and energy resource units now ignorantly processed into one building. But
this relative performance advance involves comprehensive building system reorganizations.
In contradistinction to that miniscule 4 per cent overall mechanical efficiency and 1
per cent overall structural efficiency now realized by world man, the automobiles' reciprocating
engines are 15 per cent efficient. The new gas turbines are 30 per cent efficient. Coal burning
turbo electric generators are 40 per cent efficient. Jet engines are 60 per cent efficient. Combined
desalination and electric power generating atomic reactors are 72 per cent efficient. The new fuel
cells are 80 per cent efficient. Organized design science competence, general systems control,
and employment of man’s normal rate of inventive evolution can swiftly triple the overall
resource effectiveness, and that's it. Instead of living on his million year deposited savings
account of fossil fuel energy, man can, with larger installation and comprehensive planning,
succeed in living on his vast daily energy income account in gravitational energy generated
watershed and tidal dams, sun power et al. Thus, this and future generations may conserve the
fossil fuel hydrocarbon energy savings to be passed on from generation to generation as an
emergency "cushion. "
Typified by the University of California's 1964-65 New Year's Berkeley Campus
outbreak, the present twenty-one year old junior class university students--everywhere around
the Earth – are the World-War- Two babies. Most frequently, as babies, their fathers were away
at the war and their mothers away at the munitions works. The superlative wartime spirit of
social cooperation which must have inspired the children's foster parents and baby sitters to
undertake the care and nurturing of those babies may have satisfied to unique degree the baby's
and children's innate trust,
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the most critical and most easily damaged of all the socially coordinate spontaneous behaviorisms
of new born life--which, if damaged usually results in school dropouts and juvenile delinquency.
The World War Two babies' subsequent childhoods were spent with their "G.I." student parents at
universities. The attempt of their parents to learn more --to speak better--to use their heads instead
of their muscles to win their livelihood was, as has been learned also through behavioral science,
a most powerful influence on their childhood's favorable development of intelligence. 1965's
twenty-one-year-olds are also the first babies reared by the "third parent, " television, which
brought them world news every hour with greater frequency and regularity than they received
their milk. They think "world. " They think and demand justice for all humanity, with no
exceptions! The world students are the world revolutionaries. Th y are also the most literate
students of all history as well as the first "world minded, "ergo, nationally unbiased, as well as the
healthiest students in history. Altogether, theirs will be the most powerful and constructive
revolution in all history.
In the prime of life, realizing their first individual independence and bursting with
logical and realistic idealism, the students are everywhere confronted with yesterday's science
fiction, now operative as today's practical reality.
Firstly, the students comprehend that any invention can be realized.
Secondly, the students find themselves confronted with the concurrent news of the
majority of the world people being as yet faced with starvation, ignorance, and suffering.
Thirdly, the students are confronted with an ideological struggle of the world's major
political systems, the major protagonists of which, in idealistically convinced self-righteousness,
alike exploit to the limit men's lethal dilemmas by every manner of subversive and guerrilla
warring. Each assumes that the poverty stricken peoples' problems can only be solved by political
organization. Each seeks to prove its respective political system to be superior to the others'. Each
hopes to gain the largest world support for their equally lopsided and mutually obsolete political
biases. Each spends far more to frustrate the other side than they spend in developing any realistic
plans to make the world work. Each pours its technology only into weapons. Each distributes
lethal weapons en masse to people who only want to eat, love, speculate, and laugh. This
homogenization of negatives hides the fact that no political system can, by virtue of its ideology
alone, make man a physical success. Both sides, as yet, assume Thomas Malthus' and Marx's
fundamental resource inadequacy to hold true and claim their respective systems to be most just
under the assumed mutually exclusive economic survival alternatives imposed by fundamental
inadequacies.
But---take the technological tools of industrialization away from U. S. A., Russia,
France, China, England, West Germany, Japan, and Italy and leave them all their respective
ideologies and, within six months, two billion world humans will die of starvation. Contrariwise,
take away from those eight sovereign states all their political ideologies and political leaders and
leave them their industrial tools and human operators and their habitual daily production and
distribution system network tasks and no more will starve than are starving now. New gap-filling
pro tern leaders would spring up everywhere, overnight, with emergency gained authority who
would make things work as well and probably better.
Only as a consequence of such politically transcendental and industrially informed
observation is it now philosophically, scientifically, and mundanely visible
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that the only difference between all of the unsuccessful yesterdays and the half successful today
is the presence of the world-around industrial network and its regeneratively multiplying
scientific and technical know-how.
World society is as yet unappreciative of industrialization’s significance. Its superevolutionary stature and the nature of its comprehensive functioning are as yet obscured by
thick overlays of essentially irrelevant theories of its political and economic profit
involvements. World students will, in due course, discover that world industrialization is an
evolutionary transformation, as fundamental as that of caterpillars into butterflies, Man's
originally internal and corporeally integral functions and organic processes are inventively
externalized by man, altogether to provide a world around metabolic regeneration system of
mutually sustaining significance only. For instance, great cities are organic components of the
world industrialization. Into the cities evoluting continuity, new human lives are born and lives
die out as are little coral animals, in and out of coral reefs. Industrialization constitutes
continuous man. Each new life is born to be stimulated positively or negatively into making
direct or indirect, conscious or subconscious contributions to the evolutionary increase of the
industrial common-wealth's metabolic and metaphysical regeneration capabilities.
Uncomprehending industrialization as constituting inexorable accelerating
evolution everywhere around the world, the students demand impatiently that the world be
made to work, right now! However, as with the older population, the students' re-flexes have
been originally and overpoweringly conditioned by their childhood experiences of being at first
helpless babies, utterly dependent on their parents’ responsibility and authority. Both as child
and as youth, their reflexes have been conditioned to think of problems as being solvable only
by some higher authority – their father--the school teacher--the family doctor or the family
priest. For this obvious reason, they now assume that the world problems can only be solved by
their respective Rig (political) Papas and by the latter's political initiative. But the students don't
as yet understand that the man-date of political leaders stems from an inherently debilitating
bias – the exclusive protection of their respective national or political groups.
As we have already observed, due to the inordinately low level of mechanical
efficiency of the world's production and distribution system, as now designed and operative, not
even one-half of humanity can now survive for half its potential life span, – though it is
eminently feasible by design to triple the mechanical efficiency level and thus take care
handsomely of 100 per cent of humanity. The problem is primarily one of performance
upgrading by scientific inventions. However, the true technical nature of the problem is
overwhelmingly obscured by the individuals' millenniums long, reflex conditioned reliance only
upon whichever political individual happens to be the most powerfully emergent claimant to
being the "champion" of his- community and nation's cause. It is assumed by man's historical
conditioning that the strongest political leader-ships are morally ordained to lead society into
periodic warring for survival only of the "fittest. ”
Many factors have operated to bring about such fatalistic, social reflexing. Much
vulnerability of society arises from misplaced social confidence in the soundness of its primary
educational concepts. For instance, major reflex conditioning of society springs from the
universal, elementary schooling of children with Greek geometry's definition of a triangle (or of
a circle or any polygon) as "the area bound by a closed line”--in the case of the triangle "the
area is bound by a closed line of three edges and three angles. " In the days of the Greek
geometers’ formulations, the Earth was thought of as a plane whose lines ran outward
horizontally to nowhere. Outside the triangle lay
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ultimate wilderness--then chaos, then infinity. Today we know that the Earth and all systems are
finite. The law of conservation of energy says "Energy may neither be created nor lost. " The
physical universe is a finite system. Earth is a finite sphere. The surface of a sphere is a unit area;
any closed line such as a circle or a triangle set upon a sphere, subdivides the whole sphere's
surface into two sub areas--i. e., the two areas on both sides of the line. The Earth's equator
subdivides Earth into northern and southern hemispheres. When a small triangle is scribed on the
Earth, the remainder of the Earth's surface is also a unit area defined by the same closed line of
three edges and three angles – with the angles greater than 180 degrees.
Dogmatic teaching of Greek plane geometry in elementary school produces an
exclusive--only-one-side-of-the-line bias whereby the "inside" area, which is "our" area, is also a
finite and valid area. It is inferred by the Greek geometry that all the surface ”outside" in an
infinite, unbounded area, ergo uncontrollable, is ultimately chaotic and unreliable. To each
elementary school student--carelessly misinformed in many ways, such as: "the sun goes down
and rises, ” the world as yet seems realistically to stretch away horizontally to infinity, despite the
students mildly contradictory geographical training. It is easy for the students to be trapped by the
"one-side-of-the-line bias. " Ergo--they automatically assume that "the other fellow is wrong."
This bias is a typically debilitating consequence of dogmatically accepted axioms, many of which
though now proven invalid through scientific experiment continue to be taught to hundreds of
millions of young students.
The politicians are forever faced with the ultimate, axiomatic, Malthusian economics-the "you or me" decisions, "because there is not enough for both of us." Politicians therefore are
not only inherently but also debilitatingly biased. In spite of their ghost writers' political
speeches--rising at times to altruistic heights--politicians are always realistically maneuvering for
the next election or supreme council meeting. Despite superb dreams of some political leaders,
compromising deals have usually had highest priority in their ultimate ways-and-means decision
making.
Those politicians who undertake altruistic and idealistic solutions of the
"only you or I can live--not both" dilemmas, always fail because of the heretofore,
seemingly "forever, " lethal, economic assumption of a fundamental world resource
inadequacy--as thus far in history designedly employed, and as thus far understood,
either popularly or by the non-inventively thinking economic experts.
In the Design Science Revolution world students have at last glimpsed the realization
that they no longer must leave the solution of the world's problems to the politicians or to anyone
else other than themselves. The world's students have glimpse-realized that with the same.
inalienable right as that of anal inventing individuals--i. e., with poetic license only--without guns
or weapons of any kind--employing only their intellect, which is weightless--they can seize the
economic initiative and institute the tool and network design revolution and its also realistically
designed performance up-grading of the world resources to serve 100 per cent of humanity
instead of 44 per cent.
Practicing professional architects and architectural students may say, ”This is not in
the architectural curriculum. What authority decreed that architectural students might be allowed
to take the design initiative in redesigning all the industrial tools? Who is going to pay us?"
The answer is, "What authority told the Wright Brothers to invent the air-plane? Who
told the Bell Laboratory scientist to discover the transistor? Who told
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Bell to invent the telephone? And if you make a good invention, all the world will pay you for it
over and over again. "
Initiative springs only from within the individual. Initiative can neither be created
nor delegated. It can only be vacated. Initiative can only be taken by the individual on his own
self-conviction of the necessity to overcome his conditioned reflexing which has accustomed
him theretofore always to yield authority to the wisdom of others. Initiative is only innate and
highly perishable.
WASN'T ALL THIS VISIBLE BEFORE? Why hasn't the whole world been
consciously disciplined to coordinate such a do-more-with-less design revolution?
The answer is: the generalized do-more-with-less principle has only be-come
meagerly visible to anyone in the last three decades, and only importantly evident to a few more
in the last decade. It has emerged, all unpredicted by any economists of history, through the
accelerated evolution and mass production of doing more-with-less primarily in weaponry. It is
the result of mass production of the means of production, which in turn was brought about only
by the historically unprecedented "massive retaliation" strategy of the 1950's and 1960’s, which
in turn became possible of realization--for the first time in history--only with the advent of the
invisible scientific tidal wave of atomics, electronics, and computerization. Doing vastly more
with vastly and invisibly less, is known technically as ephemeralization. The mass production of
electronic controls inaugurated automation. With automation has come--just now--a dawning
awareness of the invisible avalanche of ephemeralization.
Until World War Two saw the Maginot Line swept over, as though it did not exist-mankind's dry land civilizations had always conceived of their safety as being dependent upon
ever more massive fortifications! The heavier and bigger, the more secure! No one knew or
cared how much weight was piled up. Even today, neither architects nor their clients nor the
public has any thought of how much buildings weigh. Massive masonry and "deep window
reveals” were the "most wanted" residential architectural features of the 1920's.
What swept over the world’s historically most massive and deeply founded
fortification, the Maginot Line in 1940, was the German's bringing out onto man's dry land of
the, theretofore exclusively seaborne and seakept secret strategy of doing vastly more with
invisibly less--the tanks were submarines climbing out upon the land, the airplanes were the
destroyers with wings--stunned mankind called it the Blitzkrieg. The do-more-with-less
blitzkrieg machines didn't have to "take" the fort. They ran right over it. They commanded the
whole economy's circulatory system. There was no greater hitting power anywhere to still their
omnipresent killing power.
Mankind, conditioned only to look for more to do his tasks, was utterly confused by
the blitzkrieg. He kept looking for a bigger rather than a smaller explanation. This was the
popular historical turning point. Throughout all of known history, 99 per cent of humanity
occupied only the dry land--whose arable portion amounted to only about 5 per cent of the
surface of planet "earth"--the other 1 per cent of humanity occupied 75 per cent of Earth's
surface, the great, treacherous, watery one ocean world. Realizing that ships may deliver
magnitudes of cargo tonnages thousands fold that transportable on the backs of men or animals,
the 1 per cent of world population who became high-seas merchantmen, or pirates, mastered the
other 99 per cent of human population by controlling all the sea lanes of the world commerce
and thereby the world’s wealth integrations. The great pirates became supreme. The secret of
their mastery lay in
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the secrets of shipbuilding, handling, and navigation, in which the basic limits of floatability--or
displacement--meant that whoever could build-in the highest overall performance with the least
weight and effort, could float-mobilize the greatest and swiftest hitting power to command the
seaways and their merchantmen, and thereby run the world.
The ethereal, strength secrets of ship, airplane, and rocketry building have 'never
been even mildly understood by the only massively impressed brains of land men, i. e., 99 per
cent of humanity. Up to 1932, the calculation records of all naval ships were methodically
destroyed by all the admiralties of all the navies of the world. How many Americans are familiar
with the name of Webb Institute, the premiere source of the U. S. A. 's great naval architects?
That man might do more with less was thought of by the "landlubbers', " economic
experts as nonsense. Up to and through World War Two, more-with-less used to be conceived of
as impossible and jokingly referred to as "lifting oneself up by one’s own bootstraps"--we don't
hear of the expression now. But it is only since World War Two that we haven't heard it. The
public press has not yet noticed the obsolescence of that historically devastating cliche.
A key part of ephemeralization's acceleration has been played by the return of
approximately all of the world's metallic scrap into complete reuse. This scrap recirculation
released by progressive obsolescence of earlier inventions by newer more efficient ones was
utterly unrecognized by either economists, businessmen, politicians, -- or even the world's metal
monopolizing cartels up to 1940--as constituting a fundamental factor in the doing more with less
process. It is approximately unknown even today that the World’s total mined metals resources
recirculate every 22 1/2 years. This surprising condition occurred as follows: the quantity of the
prime metals--iron, copper--mined and put into circulation during the years 1917, 1918, 1919 of
World War One --was threefold the total cumulative quantity of those metals mined in all
previous history. The vast new, recirculating resource did not come into play historically until 22
1/2 years later, i. e., in 1940, 41, and 42, which was well into the years of World War Two. In the
onrush of war, the vast new scrap arrivals were unnoticed (except by the few who had predicted
its arrival). The economists assumed this scrap metals arrival to be a normal part of the
enormously stepped up war production in general--"probably" they thought, "the scrap has been
sacrificed by patriots throwing 'their all’ into the breech. "
Economists, politicians, and financial market speculators as yet think of today’s and
tomorrow's metallic resources as only existing in mines. They have al-together missed that the
metals once mined go into eternal recirculation--chemical elements never become second-hand
and shop-worn. All that is needed is energy and know-how to free them in pristine purity for
further tasks. The United States has no tin mines--yet it has a tin reserve in aircraft and rocket
production's soft tools--greater than the ore reserve in Bolivia's great tin mines.
Only 14 per cent of all the copper mined historically by man is not at present
recirculating. And that 14 per cent which went to the ocean bottom in munitions ships will soon
be recovered and put into the circulation.
During World War Two and during Eisenhower's cold war metallic stock piling,
ostensibly for swift and massive retaliation capabilities, the great mine owners realized a
contrived bonanza, as the otherwise adequately recirculating metals were augmented by a twofolding again of history's all time mining rate. Employing the
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22 1/2 years "recirculation yardstick," we may safely predict that from July, 1966 to 1975, the
world's recirculating, scrap derived, metals resources, coming uninvited onto the world's metal
markets, will be more than doubled again. This massive metal's supply will render the design
science conversion of the world's resources--from the service of only 40 per cent of humanity, to
service of 100 per cent of the world's population--a facile matter.
The world's metals cartels, the older ’have’ countries and the newest industrial
nations--as yet uninformed regarding this newly emerging scrap recirculation--now reconnoiter
to control as surreptitiously as possible the metallic resources originally buried by nature within
the distantly deployed, world-around lands of the now newly "emerged nations." Their
uninformed economic premise is that the integrity of expansion of the industrial giants will soon
depend largely upon the as-yet-undeveloped and unmined, "tantalizingly rich" metallic resources
of those many small nations. All those so assuming will be ”rudely awakened" when (a) the
avalanche of unexpected scrap of World War Two plus (b) the dropping market enforced, cold
war, stockpile cash-in of the national holders of the unused metals will suddenly dump such an
abundance of metals on the world markets that, when combined with (c) the doing three-fold
more per pound technology--concurrently coming into the domestic technology--with (d) the
converted weaponry producers vastly higher performance, tool capabilities--the 100 per cent
industrialization of world man will probably be realized without further development of those
.new nations’. as yet unmined metals, resources. The latter will become the reserves for the
future generations’ "rainy days." This enormous, self-augmentation of industrialization's doingunprecedentedly-more with unbelievably-less which is about to take place. all unannounced, is
the big economic surprise that will bring about final abandonment of the cold warring now being
insinuated into the small nations' theaters as, not too invisibly, puppeted by all the big nations of
all political biases.
There are several other major economic world trends which are as surprising as
they are vast which are also heading full-speed to integrate with and compound the ”big
economic surprise" which will sum totally render man on Earth an "overnight" total physical
success.
Of top importance among the events trending to compound as the big surprise is the
trend of big business to move its headquarters permanently out of the country – out of the U. S.
A. --out of any sovereign nation. In the official language of the U. S. Department of Commerce,
there are two kinds of U.S. Foreign investments--direct and indirect.
Indirect foreign investment consists of U.S.A. citizens and corporations buying and
owning of equities in countries outside the U. S. A.
Direct foreign investment consists of capital investments by U. S. A. corporations
in land, buildings and machinery for foreign manufacture and commerce.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the U. S. A. had three and one half
billion of our present "F.D.R." dollars worth of direst foreign investments--this amount increased
slowly for a third of a century, to eight billion of our present ”F. D. R." dollars worth. by the
time of the 1929 crash. U. S. A. 's D. F. I. then diminished to seven billion and held there for
thirteen years until, in 1942, when the U. S. A. 's second World Warring required much foreign
production activity which the U. S, A. entrusted in entirety to its private enterprise's operation
and management.
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Since 1942, the direct foreign investments of the U.S.A. have zoomed ten-fold from
seven to over seventy billion "F, D. R." dollars worth, which equals the value of all the gold that
has been mined in all history--of which 42 billion ”F. D.R." dollars is the total value of that
portion which functions as monetary gold. The U.S.A. 's Direct Foreign Investments also equal in
value the seventy billion dollars worth of the entire electrical energy generating and distributing
industry's capital equipment as now owned by the combined public and private sectors of the
continental United States.
The original U.S.A. born corporations' direct foreign investments are now doubling
every seven years. Unabated, they will probably double to one hundred and fifty billion dollars by
1972.
In 1964, the seventy billion U. S.A. Direct Foreign Investments earned four and one
half billion dollars net after paying all taxes. That is just over 6 1/2% net.
Largest earner from direct foreign investment was General Motors, whose one half
billion dollars--constituting one-third of its total 1964 earnings from all sources of one billion and
a half dollars net profit after taxes--came from its foreign operations, despite that much less than
one-third of its total capital investments have been made outside the U. S.A. So powerful is this
trend of big U. S. corporations that in 1964, $4 out of every $5 that the U, S.A. 's 100 largest
corporations put into new capital equipment investments went into their foreign operations.
Quite clearly, as I. B. M. 's International operations chairman, Arthur Watson, says-”the trend is already a reality and big business is no longer 'national’ in character but is
identifiable only as a 'world' phenomenon.”
Watson says that it is now as inappropriate to speak of ’England trading with Spain'-or of world commerce as a 'country trading with a country'--as it would be to speak of the myriad
mideast coast U. S. A. commerce events as consisting of states trading with states, i. e. 'New York
State trading with New Jersey'--with their trade balances only adjusted annually with gold bullion
transfers. Despite big businesses’ new efficiencies the world's sovereign political states as yet
operate with utterly out-worn international accounting customs, inherited unquestioningly by
world society--from the great pirates method of avoiding hijacking of their gold on the high seas
by trading for a whole-at-a-time on credit leaving their high rank ’sovereign ambassadors' as
hostages in the foreign capitals, to insure their annual trade balancing, which took place only
'across the counter' or 'down the street' between the large banks in the world's well guarded
capital cities.
The post 1942 pattern of the foreign industrial corporations' upsurge is quite different
from the old foreign mine and oil well exploitations in which the 'U.S. or European corporations
took away wealth from the foreign countries. The new trend brings wealth into the foreign
countries. The old pattern became intolerable to most of the exploited countries who seized the
wells and mines and operated them for their own account as, for instance, did Iran or Mexico.
In addition to prohibiting foreign operators from taking away their wealth, Mexico
will not allow any foreign corporations to export automobiles or other major manufactured items
into Mexico. They require that the foreign corporations shall manufacture in Mexico. The
Mercedes auto for instance is popular in Mexico due to its world-around acknowledged
excellence of performance. The Mercedes Company like General Motors must manufacture their
cars in Mexico exclusively for Mexican consumption. They must give the Mexican government
and Mexican investors the majority
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of the shares in their Mexican manufacturing corporation. But General Motors, Mercedes et. al.
can, for good value given, and without depriving the foreign operation, take out enough profit to
make the sum of all their many separate foreign earnings a fabulous amount. Ergo, the foreign
countries prosper and get the benefit of the know-how of a world-powerful research and
development program, to an extent greater than they could develop for themselves. The
Mexican’s could produce an "Inca" car or a "Montezuma V8" but these products could not have
the mature world corporation's know-how, service-ability or competitive earning value.
It is improbable that these new era world companies ever will be seized by the
countries as the countries are already the majority share owners and are realizing greater wealth
and technical advantage earnings, from General Motors' world experienced, production
management and research development, than they could possibly make on their own.
This general exodus of the world industry giants from sovereign protection of their
respective countries of origin will in due course altogether eliminate big business lobbying for
continuance of their respective earlier domestic 'protection' – in a way of custom tariffs – and
even indirectly through passport controls, just as intra-New Jersey-New York state customs and
passports have become utterly impractical of maintainance as state sovereignty devices.
As the big corporations graduate to world status they enter countries whose wages
are far below U. S.A. wage scales. Because of the world corporations economic lessons learned
in their "school days" in the U. S.A., – e. g. that the higher and wider the wages distributed the
more prolific and profitable the mass production – the big world corporations policy--now
managed more and more by computer determinations regarding "which is the most profitable
strategy – this or that?" – will promote progressive increase in foreign wage rates and in timepayment finance to accelerate world buying. This world corporations’ around-the-world, wages
step-up to final parity with U.S.A. wages will not be occasioned by the U.S.A. labor unions
instituting world operations--a difficult task due to passports and other restrictions – but all
unexpectedly by computer fiat because it will be promoted profitably by the world corporations'
C. I. T. type investment operations, it will take only a decade to develop world wage rate parities
thus eliminating the fundamental frustration of economic development in India, etc.
In the meantime, the low foreign wages will make it impossible for the U.S.A. labor
to compete with the world industry operations without committing economic suicide by
quartering their wage rates. Instead U. S.A. labor will have to recognize that its direct objective
of raising labor's income share of progressively multiplying industrial wealth augmentations was
only inadvertently, the means of its doing something much bigger and more important for world
industrialization and humanity which was the key to making U.S. mass production industry
successful. Labor's inadvertent contribution to world industrialization success was that its widely
distributed and stepped-up wage rates made possible mass purchasing which made mass
production of any good prototype a fundamental economic success. To consolidate its gains and
to stride forward into the new era, U. S.A. labor will have to let automation articulate briskly its
flourishing trends in order to greatly advance the production of the organized energy -wealthcapability and thereby to make possible the residual, smaller U. S.A. producers' ability to
compete favorably in world markets. Thus U.S.A. labor will have to persuade the U. S.A.
Congress to underwrite fifty million lucrative university scholarships with life benefits of every
type in order to persuade labors 'rank and file' to unblock and mandate full-cry automation.
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The only limitation to such a commitment is the ability to produce the goods which
will be commanded by this steady buying power, and that exactly is what automation alone can
do! The same scholarships will have to be given also to all the tens of millions of job holding
bureaucrats – federal, state and corporate--as the international and inter-state tariffs and personal
taxes are progressively eliminated "on advise" of the computers – as to the most favorable
strategies for generating, distributing and regenerating the greatest possible real "energy intellect"
– capability commonwealth in the shortest possible time.
In order to make universities adequate to the avalanche load, a 'great teachers'
documentary producing television revolution in education must take place. First thing will be to
give all the faculty "deadwood” of all colleges and universities super research "fellowships" – to
be operative anywhere off campus.
Through computer analysis the private vs. public sectors' "best-interest"
differentiations will trend to disappear. As they diminish the inhibition by invitation – already
commenced – of the world-production-corporations' enterprises, into the previously, exclusively
"socialist" lands will swiftly increase. With such, socialist invited, world-type corporation's
automated enterprise installations advantageously operative in socialist lands, will come the
supra-bounteous, incentive-held options on capital share values, which will gain swiftly as worldaround accredited and computer evaluated relative wealth augmenting. In order to stimulate and
properly reward those who initiate and sustain--the commonwealth multiplying – ever higher
standards of performance in any and all prosocial advantage directions, – options on shares in the
world industry corporations will be purchasable out of the lucrative "fellowship" incomes, by the
computer detected and designated individuals who prove to be real-wealth augmentors of
"important" magnitude.
All such vast considerations of "wealth" generation and regenerative distribution must start with both scientific and popular recognition of the extraordinary potentialcapability value of the human beings which themselves constitute a priori, automated and
metabolicly self-regenerating, brain controlled, growth mechanisms. The wealth comprehending must also recognize the extraordinary potentials of the natural environment., if
properly understood as a complex of complementary patterns which if properly manipulated
can support total man life. Next in importance in the consideration of the factors necessary
to man's realization of nature's potential wealth, comes man's experimental discovery of the
leverage principle – as man accidentally steps upon the long end of a log, lying across
another log, with the short end of the stepped-on log lying under a third log too great for
man's lifting by the combined muscles of his back legs, and arms. Man sees and realizes,
as he steps on the log, that his relatively light weight is easily lifting the far heavier log.
After much lever exploiting experience, man next arranges a set of lever arms around
a hub and places this wheel of paddle-tipped levers in a waterfall and is able to link up
the turning water-wheel shaft by pulleys, belts and gears – which are all lever principle
devices--to do sustained work greater than he can do with his own muscles and that the
.linkage of free energies to levers belittles his miniscule short period efforts. With these
interlinkages of the lever and channelled energy man is now in the wealth making business,
which is to use his brain to get nature's vast energy patterns to do the energy work of
supporting and regenerating him.
All this is possible because the true wealth of world man is mathematically
inventoriable as his physically organized ability to protect and satisfy his forward, inexorable,
metabolic and intellectual regeneration needs – which forwardly established, metabolic
regeneration capability wealth is statable in per capita forward days, safely and adequately
anticipated.
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The physical abilities which can anticipatorily furnish the metabolic regeneration
capabilities consist of three main components, – two of which consist of energy, while the third
consists of physically weightless, intellectual know-how.
The first energy component is energy as matter out of which man fashions all his
tools, each of which is a development of the fulcrum and lever or the mechanical advantage
principle.
The second energy component is 'free' energy as radiation or gravity, which may be
channeled and focused electro-magnetically, and otherwise, to impinge on the advantage-ends.
of the levers to do the forward metabolic regeneration work. Intellect shunts the free energy
patterns of universe – external to man – to impinge on the big, automated leverage, work
complex by using man’s miniscule physical (muscular and brain reflex) capabilities, only as
self-starter and coordinator mechanisms, which self starter efforts are amplifiable by the
"advantage" principle are pyramided relayingly, to finally in turn, start-up and coordinate the
latest-biggest, system machines – by making first the small scale tools that make the bigger
tools, which in turn mass produce the ever bigger and more prolific – brain-reflex emulating –
automated tools.
Of this regenerative energy-wealth-intellect-know-how operation, it may be said
that the scientists assure us, by the experimentally derived law of conservation of energy, that
"energy may neither be lost nor created." They also assure us that the physical universe is finite-and consists exclusively of energy – therefore, the energy content of wealth is inexhaustible;
ergo, irreducible. They also assure us that experiment shows that the intellectual know-how
content of wealth is only increasable, for every time intellect is employed experimentally, it
learns more. It can't learn less. If it learns that what it guessed "might work" doesn't work – that
is learning more; ergo, wealth, which cannot decrease physically and can only increase
intellectually can sum totally only multiply.
Real-wealth is irreversibly self-augmenting.
Real-wealth cannot be used to alter yesterday.
Real-wealth can only be used to alter today and tomorrow.
The more and faster wealth is employed, the more and faster it must multiply.
Wealth has naught to do with the intrinsic value 'money’, as metallic specie –
as silver, copper or gold coinage. Gold, silver and copper have, however, a myriad of uniquely
excellent technological function advantages for man – for instance, in the formulation of
energy-tool capabilities – that is as function #l in the three-fold wealth constituency – energy
(M) energy (C) and intellect. Incidentally, there is a challenge to the mathematical physicists to
integrate the four fundamental, threefold constituent formulations. Einstein’s E = MC2; Gibb's
(phase rule) f = n – r + 2; Euler's (topological) V = E – F + 2; and our own wealth 1 aw W= 2E
+ I (where W is wealth, E is energy and I is intellect). The probably ultimate identification of
functions of these formulas with one another--as disclosing one generalizable 1 aw for only
superficially different aspects of the same fundamentals
of universe behaviorism – will bring about an enormous acceleration in the computerized
establishment of man’s real wealth functioning and its regenerative investibility, and thereby
establishment of total man's physical success in universe.
It is an inherent characteristic of man’s intellect organized energy wealth that the
larger the numbers served, the more swiftly the apparatus is amortized and becomes
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improvingly replaceable.
The larger the interactive energy wealth system, the more efficiently does it operate.
This is comprehended when we observe experimentally that when we double the linear
dimensions of a system, we four-fold its surface, while eight-folding its volume; ergo, as we
double size, we consistently halve the areas of surface through which the eight-folded and
contained energies may escape – e. g. the larger the sun – or any star--the lower the entropic rate,
and the longer does it conserve its energy. The larger the iceberg, the slower the rate of its
melting, for it can only melt by inhibiting energy as heat from the rest of the universe, which it
can only do through its surface. As the iceberg melts, its volume shrinks at a velocity of the third
power V3 while its surface shrinks only a V2, therefore, as it melts the rative amount of the
volume as yet to be melted decreases much more rapidly than the amount of the surface area
through which the energy – as heat to melt it, – can be admitted. The smaller the ice mass in a
given atmosphere the faster does it melt. As the iceberg grows smaller it melts faster. Conversely
generalizing: as energy systems grow larger they lose energy more slowly.
The combined energy and intellect wealth may be distributed from the natural energy
sources, which are frequently remote from where men need to use the energy, wherefore the
transmission of energy is intimate to the omni-directional realizations of wealth by all men
everywhere.
In the transmission of energy by man from its generative source to work for other
men at distances around the earth away from the energy sources, there are great differences in the
efficiency, capacity and speed of the known alternative technologies of energy transmission--i. e.
by: (A) continuous or batched; (B) solid, powered, liquid gaseous or electrical; (C) vesseled,
boated, railroaded, piped, wired or wirelessed.
All transmission systems involve original capital investments of the energy-intellecttime, wealth to produce the transmission tools and further working capital of energy plus
intellectual time wealth to cover operating costs.
When we account the annual rates for amortizing the original capital – tools and
structures as well as the operating costs and continuous, lifelong, social overhead of
commonwealth responsibilities and functions--as now customarily articulated by taxes – and
compare the net delivered energy costs, volume and velocity advantages of the alternate energy
transmission systems, we find that electrical energy delivered today by wire (and tomorrow
possibly by radio, or light, or laser beams) – is by far the most efficient, pro-fuse and speedy
wealth distributing system.
The history of increase of voltages, distances and volumes of electrical
energy transmission has been tied directly to the progressive limits of practically manufacturable,
installable and maintainable equipment that could be realized from the comprehensive
conversions of pure science's (subjective) discoveries into objective use technologies, as also
modified by the physical ("material") resources becoming progressively available to industrial
use. (We put material into quotes for nuclear physics has clearly demonstrated that there are no
"solid" things or "matter" in the sense in which man uses the word. )
Generally speaking, the higher the voltage, the greater both the volumes at which and
the distances to which electrical energy can be transmitted. By the use of transformers, electrical
energy generated at safely workable low voltages may be stepped-up to high voltage levels for
transmission, and stepped-down at the receiving ends for safe domestic and industrial use.
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High voltage electrical transmission systems require many safe-guarding devices,
for protection of both the public and the generating and transmitting systems – themselves-against the otherwise disastrous voltage and wattage overloadings occasioned by the relatively
frequent interactions of lightning with the conducting lines and switch yards. The systems need
extraordinarily effective overloaded circuit breakers, as well as insulators to support the
conduction lines.
The two most limiting factors in recent years in the constant effort to increase the
safe, feasible and economic electrical conduction has been (A) the limit of insulator
effectiveness, and (B) the complex design and fabrication of adequately large conduction lines.
The costly ceramics research occasioned by re-entry problems of space vehicles, plus the large
quantities of the most plentiful and economically conducting metals--aluminum and copper –
now available, has provided new high capacity electrical transmission insulators, and higher
voltage capacity in general.
High voltage conductance – heretofore primarily at 138, 000 kilo volts, and at 230,
000 kilo volts, --has represented the maximum level of high voltage transmission feasibility of
the last two decades. The transmission distances theoretically permitted by the highest of these
voltages was in 1936--1,400 miles, but due to fluorescent line losses, the practically profitable
distance was only 340 miles. Hoover Dam to Los Angeles was a typically practical limit.
Because of this 340 mile limit, industrial network systems of the major urban centers of the U.
S.A. were too remote from one another to permit economically favorable integration hook-ups.
Energy systems, as we have observed, are greatly benefited when the inter-linkage is
economically feasible. In addition to the "geometrical relativity" aims of energy conservation
occurring as size is increased the benefit of integration comes also from the law of averages,
which allows the otherwise unused, but necessarily maintained total generating capacities to
flow from one system to the other, to satisfy one another's non-simultaneous supply shortages.
The costs go down, and the profits go up rapidly with transmission network integrations.
Technological improvements are now permitting transmission voltage step-ups of
importantly improved magnitude--to 380,000, to 500,000 and to 1,000, 000 kilo volts (one
million kilo volts, is one billion volts). This net era transmission is spoken of in the electrical
industry as U. H.V. --"ultra high voltage. "
Contracted U. H.V. installations are now underway throughout the U. S. A. which,
within a decade will, for the first time, completely interconnect the U.S.A. 's electrical generation
and transmission systems, bringing such important cost reductions and profit increases, that both
the public and private ownership sectors are being vastly advantaged. The continental integrating
agreements underlying the physical network interlinkings have been accomplished without
public notice of its taking place, despite that the total networks so integrated represent a capital
value of seventy billion dollars. So satisfactory to both public and private sectors has this new
development become, that the political voices of yesterday's vitriolic dissention between public
and private sectors have been entirely stilled. They were inherently stilled because the mergers
were not arrived at through the opinions of directors but by the multi computer cross-checked
assurance of the mutual profits only to be arrived at by such merger. A pre-knowledge of this
silently arrived at private-public sectors merging of the yesterday dividend sides' respective "best
interests" to common bonanza accord, which took place during 1962-63 in the electrical
transmission industry could readily have forecast the 1964 presidential election of Johnson.
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The by-product physical advantages for society of the integrated U.S.A. 's
continental, energy network will be many, not the least of which will be the removal of the fuel
burning prime movers of the generating systems from the major cities. Up to now, coal has been
delivered by rail from Pennsylvania mines to New York City at lower energy cost than it could be
transmitted by wire at 230,000 KV. The coal smoke of the electrical generation stations has been
the prime smog maker of greater N.Y. C. With U. H.V., energy will go from Pennsylvania coal
field generators to New York City at an overall 33% energy cost reduction as compared with the
previous railroading of the coal. This direct cost reduction will be minor in comparison to the
indirect cost reductions, such as the dust deposit accelerated depreciation of all manner of goods
or of lung impairments, etc. This U. H.V. long distance energy transmissions as from generators
in New Foundland to N.Y. City will mean elimination of smog, not only from N.Y. C. but from
the majority of all world cities.
Step-ups to one million kilo volts makes most economically feasible the intercontinental linkage not only of Europe, Asia and Africa, but also of the American continents and
in the not distant future of North America linked over or under, the Bearing Straits, with
Kamchatka and thence with both the Russian and Chinese networks. This will occur in time to
greatly accelerate the Eastern Siberian and above all the swift Oriental, energy-intellect-wealth
distribution step-ups.
The energy-intellect-wealth advantage accruing to these last interlinkages will be the
optimum because they will interlink the low night-time loads of the progressively shadowed
hemisphere of the rotating earth with the high daytime loads of the progressively illuminated
hemisphere.
It is now clearly indicated that the energy wealth advantages accruing to both private
and public sectors will be so vast as to tend swiftly to cancel out the ideological differences of the
respective beneficiary peoples' previous sovereign political system advantages. "If that's
socialism – I'm a socialist" is the new enterprise capitalists ejaculation, and "if that's capitalism –
it's ideal for the commonwealth augmentation of the masses" is the socialists ejaculation as they
integrate their respectively contributed network facilities.
These new and vastly increased energy-wealth generating capabilities will convert to
positive account the world’s energy wealth now on negative account – in the inventories of
atomic energy invested in destructive missiles. With the energy-intellect-wealth integrations, the
human desire drive for realizable physical success will swiftly out-distance man's fear motivated
weaponry build-up. There will be many energy harvesting, generating, and transmitting
reorganizations. For instance, lead by Le Tourneau's final success in developing the diesel electric
all-wheel drives of large earth movers, the electric propulsion of short-haul vehicles in all urban
work, combined with the swift advances in energy-storage batteries, will go on in the next
decades to eliminate carbon monoxide fumes from cities.
During World War Two there was greater need for hydrocarbon products
than could be supplied by the petroleum industry, experiments were conducted at the
United States Bureau of Standards--using the three most popular automobile engines –
which were fueled with alchohol instead of gasoline. They worked with high efficiency
and only minor carburetor modifications. The alchohols came from the canes and grasses.
Because of exhaustion of petroleum refining capacities during World War Two, it was also
necessary to allow the production of large amounts of alchohol from sugar and grains in
order to produce sufficient butyl and neoprene, to in turn produce synthetic rubber products –
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especially auto, truck and plane tires. All unexpectedly, the synthetics provided far greater tire
mileage performance than had the previous tire rubbers.
By the experimental developments of World War Two, it was clearly demonstrated
that it is technically possible for world society to live at highest conceivable standards while
using only its daily energy income from the ”push-pulls" of star radiation and gravity, while at
the same time conserving the fossil fuels and atomic fuel 'savings' of the ages. It was evidenced
that all the daily hydro-carbon income of cosmically generated radiation’s photosynthesis and
metabolic energy harvesting in all the greenery of nature may be converted into storable
alchohols from which energy as alchohol, energy as fuels, foods or plastics may be chemically
realized – en masse.
In the next decade’s worldizing of industrial production systems and energy
generating and transmission systems, we will witness the surprise solution to the establishment
of world citizenship occasioned swiftly and simply by multiplication of world passenger traffic
to magnitudes which will necessitate credit-card type passports and automation of omni-border
clearances; plus the amplification of the efficiencies accruing to 'common market'.
Compounding all the trends herewith related makes clear that the highest priority
task of the International Cooperation Year will be the dissemination to all the world’s peoples of
the kinds of integrated trend, experiment, invention and development information that we are
considering in this review – of the Geosoeial Revolution – whereby total humanity can now
become physically successful, if it doesn't, through over extended and tolerated ignorance,
frustrate the trends.
The important news to be disseminated continually integrates productively with
other news as we realize for instance that all the energy, generation and distribution range,
gaining will be coupled economically with desalination programs which can employ all the byproduct heat of the electrical generating systems to reduce the generation costs of the world
networks to even more important degree – while at the same time bringing the world's deserts
into ever green operation as the most efficient sun radiation harvesting and storing system of the
metabolic wealth – optionally convertible thereafter into food, fuel or plastics.
While all the metabolic gains are taking place, favorable- changes in population
trends will be realized. Biological population is apparently operative on a quantum basis. Nature
increases the seed and fertilization starts in inverse proportion to the probability of successful
growth and survival of each of the ecologically complementary species – of all of life on Earth.
As the chances for maple trees to survive decrease, nature starts more maple tree seeds whirling
off in their rotor-ships to find plantable sites.
The full range of energy events of universe impinging upon man as hurricanes,
earthquakes or mild weather changes, or even milder mosquito bites, are organized by nature on
a quantum basis, whereby the more severe the energy event, the less frequent its occurrence, and
conversely the milder and less disturbing, the more frequent are the energy events. Earthquakes
are far less frequent than fleas, and novae less frequent than tornadoes.
In the same way, the human population’s starts, gains and recessions are geared
directly to changing survival and birth rate probabilities. The first seventeenth century European
colonists in America had an average of thirteen children per family. As the first waterworks and
sewer systems came into use, improving the sanitary conditions and survival probability, the
numbers of children per family swiftly decreased (only reversing momentarily in meager degree
to rectify the abnormal death rates of warfaring) until with full industrialization attained in
America, the birth rate is not at l. 9 children per family.
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The more industrialized a country becomes, the more rapidly does its birth rate
decrease. North America, Europe and Russia's population birth rates are all de-creasing, and tend
toward swifter decline. The increase in longevity in those countries, through control of diseases is
alone responsible for their only temporary population adjustment increases. World population
will first stabilize, then finally decrease as industrialization swiftly amplifies to serve all of
humanity. What is developing on a long-range basis is that once born, some men will probably
live in excellent health and vigor to great age – possibly ad infinitum.
The rate at which each successive country, entering industrialization, accomplishes
the full industrialization magnitudes, per capita, accomplished by the earlier industrializing
economies, constantly accelerates. Russia inaugurated its industrialization tool-ups as the U. S.A.
came to the old world pirates' 1929 financial crash (occasioned by the U. S. A. 's original
industrial exploiter's too short-sighted initiatives which fiasco switched the prime initiative from
private banking into public underwriting of the wholesale advances of technological evolution).
In the early 1930's Russia purchased the prototype production plants – for all phases of
industrialization – from the U. S.A. 's temporarily unemployed industrial giants, as well as from
other major European industrial economies. Russia did not buy the equipment used by the U.S.A.
one hundred years earlier when the U. S.A. was starting to industrialize. Russia insisted upon
obtaining only the most advanced equipment known to be realizable in the 1930's. As a
consequence, within only 50 years, Russia accomplished (approximate) parity with the U. S. A. ’s
industrial, per capita, levels. Despite Russia's high level industrialization, its living standard
potential is as yet unrealized by its citizenry, due to the cold war's weaponry diversion of Russia's
energy, intellect capital wealth. Russia accomplished in 50 years the magnitude of
industrialization which took the U.S.A. 100 years.
China entered industrialization in 1949 at the computer-automation-atomic energy
movement of history and started her tooling and instrumentation at that level. China never made
or flew a reciprocating engine and propeller driven airplane. It started in the aeronautical industry
with jets. China probably will accomplish her prime industrialization in 25 years – i. e. by 1974,
nine years from now. As each of the national industrializations has been accompanied by a
constantly lowering birth rate, China's birth rate will hence-forth decrease rapidly. China has
already established effective birth control. India's, Africa's, South and Central America's
industrializations will swiftly follow. The world population increase to "explosion" magnitude
will never occur, but will decelerate to industrially manageable magnitude as the, as yet
undreamed of higher standards of living are realized.
India, Africa, Central and South America will achieve full industrialization by 1980
when (at the most disturbing prognostication rates) the world population will have reached only 5
billion, its final peak before full industrializations declining rate sets in. At that population peak,
there will be an average of 6 1/2 acres of dry land, and nineteen acres of water-covered earth for
each human. The present figures are 10 acres of dry land, and 30 acres of water-covered earth.
The water-covered acres average a mile deep, the peak population will not come near the critical
limit of metabolic supportability of man on Earth.
Having climbed, figuratively speaking, to the top of the prognostication mountain
range, we will now enjoy our swift ski-run back to where we started. Poised at the peak of the
'run', we take our last big look around. First we see that it will be the I. C.Y. 's fore-most task to
clarify that: the world peoples’ conceptual realization that the ability to do more with less in
weaponry can also be applied to livingry, is a brand new realization. It is the mid-twentieth
century's most miraculous bonanza as realized from the cosmic treasury of the heretofore
undiscovered generalized principle which apparently govern the
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evolutionary operation of universe. When the world peoples' two major politicians, from the
maximumly opposed ideologies, Khruschev and Eisenhower, met at Geneva in 1954, it was put
in utterly surprising evidence for the first time in history that by some theretofore unnoticed
miracle, it had come-to-pass that the science and commerce world bookkeeping figures suddenly
revealed that all mankind might after all be permitted,--contrary to Malthus and Darwin’s
"survival only of the fittest" – to be a (metabolically regenerative), comprehensive, physical
success on Earth. Men can't as yet believe that fact to a degree sufficient to persuade them to
simultaneously drop all their weaponry, or their (both say--”only retalliatorily maintained")
defenses, or their altogether totally obsolete bankruptcy type economic accountings. But men's
imminent and total physical success is now fact, and it makes the capability of shooting rockets
to the moon miniscule in overall significance. Not a bad thing to have "hanging over your head"
– success!
Doing more with less--ephemeralization – while only using recirculating scrap
material resources, has never even been thought of by politicians--let along adopted by them – as
constituting a realistic political strategy. They have had always to ”make do" with the most
obvious and familiar "what-have you's". But ephemeralization is here, and the world students are
the first to develop a strategically oriented awareness of its significance, an awareness which is
now accelerating and is soon to attain world revolution magnitude.
To man’s unfavorably impressed amazement, he has now seen, developed, and made
"operational" in the weaponry arts, a package of electronic and computerized rockets, weighing
less than the weight of one navy destroyer, suddenly displacing all the navies and armies of the
earth in a million-fold more effective hitting power. Using his scientists-furnished data, President
Johnson likened the relative magnitude gain of this new striking force, to the graduation from
one candle light to the radiation of the sun. Man is either uncomprehending, or has become
congealed in his fascination with such a suddenly emergent destructive potential and has
therefore failed almost entirely to see the significance of this epoch-making capability to do
every task related to man's physical success on earth in fractions of 1% of the time, energy and
resources involvement per units of realized performance of each and every task as heretofore
required throughout all history.
It is the I. C.Y. 's and the world students' immediate task to reorient man – from his
suicidal fixity only on the negative killing aspect of "doing infinitely more, with infinitely less" –
to the- realization that the design invention revolution now empowers man to become a
comprehensive, metabolically regenerative success in universe.
At Paris in July 1965, the world news reporters may readily catch on that design
science's GEOSOCIAL REVOLUTION is indeed capable of supplanting the political initiative
and may indeed eliminate the seemingly irremediable world impasses. The newsmen may even
see that the design revolution is civilization's last change. They may also discover that it is
history's greatest news story. But, if the newsmen do not catch on in Paris – somewhere soon
thereafter they will make the 'historic 'double-take’ and report it to the world – for it is indeed
history’s greatest and most welcome news. Then design science's popular revolution will start
rolling as more and more of the world's millions of students put themselves to work in design
science cooperatives on the world’s university campuses. Thus the students will stop using their
heads as punching bags, and will start to use them in the most effective functioning for which
their heads were designed; i. e. to design the now, for the first time, designable physical success
of all men around Earth!
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It is clearly the function of politics to consolidate the scientific and industrial gains
Political battling for justice, as in the present struggle for the full citizens' rights, not only for all
the U. S. A. 's population, hut for all the world population, is highly valid. But the right to vote
cannot alone feed stomachs. Only the design science revolution can solve the problems of
clothing, housing, transporting, intercommunicating and educating all humanity, --thereby to
permit omni-integrating world society to have positives instead of negatives for which to vote.
The problems of private vs. public sectors is the same problem as socialism vs.
private enterprise, and the same problem as man vs. men,
The individual has unique capabilities as do pluralities of men have unique
capabilities. It takes two to make a baby. It takes only one to make a discovery. World society
soon will comprehend and resolve these unique function differentiations and – avoiding their
interferences--profit by their mutually regenerative interfunctioning. Two-headed men might
make good football quarterbacks, on the defensive, but they would never be able to dodge-run
"slalom" in spontaneously superb coordination through a broken field. Ships of the sea and air are
coordinate tool extensions of their captains. Democratic determinations of air, or sea, ship
handling, accomplished only after passenger debate, opinionated speech-making, and final
majority vote would sink any ship before it reached a safe port. It is essential that world society
learn to differentiate clearly which functions of man or of men are naturally most reliably and
usefully operative under various tooled or nontooled--industrialized or non-industrialized
conditions. "Don't speak to the motorman" is a workably sound idea as "Do speak to the ticket
seller."
Individuals invented the radio and the airplane. Invention is an individual function.
The world thereby contracted to an intimacy of all humans who had theretofore been utterly
remote and unaware of one another. The airplane and radio put the politicians to work adjusting
man to the intimate ecological change brought about by the inventions. It is the individuals who
invent refrigeration and all the technology necessary to make the world work. It is industry's job
to convert the inventions to wealth generating functions. The politician's job is to 'weed' the
garden planted by the inventors and cultivated by industry--to get rid of all that is obsolete or
untrue in order to allow the bounty to flourish. Politicians are not scientific inventors. The
invention and systems-design revolution must come before the political adjustments.
Revolution by design and invention is the only revolution tolerable to all men, all
societies, and all political systems anywhere. Every nation welcomed the invention of the
airplane, and refrigeration. Every nation welcomed and employed the transistor. All will welcome
technically economic desalinization! All the world, properly informed of the significance of the
students’ Design and Invention Revolution, will applaud and support the initiative, thus seized by
the world's youth.
The newspapers and periodicals of various host countries, having worked hard to get
world conventions to take place within their respective countries, automatically welcome the
conveners. Paris, and France will of course welcome the biennial Congress of the International
Union of Architects in its domestic press publications. However, none of the business transacted
during any of the past Architects' World Congresses has ever been of sufficient interest to the
world newsmen to be put on the international wire and wireless "services" as 'news'.
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As before in Mexico City, London, Moscow, Madrid, etc., again in 1965 the French
press will welcome the U. I. A. Congress, but there will be no world news emanating from the
Congress as precipitated by its official topic--"Architectural Education." But the International
Cooperation Year and the students of the world, using the U.I.A.'s Congress as a springboard, do
have a story--the greatest – ”The world can be made to work success-fully for all, and we know
how to do it." If the I. C. Y. doesn’t say it, and the students don't say it, and the world goes on
assuming itself to be an inherently self-frustrating system, then ignorant submission to the inertia
of our lethally conditioned reflexes will soon push the buttons of Armaggedon. We, however, are
betting that the Earthians will WAKE UP AND WIN.
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APPENDIX A
A RESOLUTION APPROPRIATE TO THE ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION THEME OF
THE VIII WORLD CONGRESS OF THE UIA IN PA;RIS, FRANCE, 1965.
Suggested for reading and distribution to the delegates during the congress for possible inclusion
on the agenda of formal resolution procedures.
Submitted by: R. Buckminster Fuller
It has been noted by recent congresses of architects that their professional
employment pattern is bulging in the direction of regional and town planning and vice
versa; regional planners are of necessity increasingly drawn into architectural undertakings. It has been noted also that architecture is trending swiftly toward general
environment controlling problems. Recently the University of California’s Department
of Architecture was renamed and enlarged under the title "College of Environmental
Design.” Environmental design has also brought architecture into the realm of general ecology,
while again (vice versa) bringing ecologists and anthropologists into the general curricula of
architectural schools as well as into consultation by practicing architects. As a direct part of the
same trending, the most recent world congresses of professional geographers noted an
importantly increasing trend of their employment in regional and own planning activities.
With the world-around building of the next score of years doubling that of all history
before us and the architects' work already deployed through modern transportation and
communication, architectural offices which yesterday found themselves for the first time
occupied in the design of buildings outside of their home territory are now being retained to build
all around the world. The world-around architectural undertakings are trending from one building
undertakings to design of whole new towns and regions. Ergo-the increasing needs for
geographers, ecologists, geologists, climatologists, sociologists, international economists, et al.
Furthermore, the astronautics, defense, social welfare and health subsidies of major
nations, now going increasingly into behavioral science researches, have brought discovery by
behavioral scientists of the profound effect of environment upon human behavior. It has been
found for instance, that 80% of the capacity to improve I.Q. has been brought into play before
seven years of age and that the probability of becoming a success in higher education vs.
becoming a 'drop-out' is now undoubtedly attributable almost in entirety to the environmental
factors of the first seven years of life. * This has drawn the architects' environment controlling
knowledge and designing capabilities into close couple with the behavioral scientists' research
and development work. Lastly, the close couple of architecture and engineering has long been
obvious. Architecture is now being joined with advanced science.
The foregoing comprehensive integration of professional art and science activities
has inaugurated a unifying trend in advanced architectural research towards reoccupation with
general systems theory. The importance and power of general systems theory as applied to
contemporary large scale planning problems becomes ever more apparent as the adequacy of
private or public client opinion, – as the design authority,
"Stability and Change in Human Characteristics" by Benjamin S. Bloom,
published, J. Wiley, 1964.
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dwindles and is replaced by joint private and government undertakings in which large teams of
scientists and humanists now collaborate as the, computer informed, prime clients.
Ergo: It will be appropriate to introduce a measure in the VIII Congress of the U.I.A
under the congress theme of "Architectural Education”, resolving that the U.I.A. recommend to
the national architectural societies, comprising the world-around official membership of the
U.I.A. that the national societies in turn recommend curricula changes to their university
architectural schools; these changes to be adopted by the national architectural societies'
professional accrediting boards, whereby, in addition to the presently established wet of
architectural disciplines, an important new percentage of the architectural curriculum be devoted,
firstly, to general systems theory and, secondly, to acquisition by the architectural students of
ecological, geo-graphical, behavioral and industrial economics capabilities.
The wisdom of such U.I.A. recommendation will become ever more apparent as the
emerging nations and the lesser developed older nations find that their economic well-being is
vitally dependent on their becoming integral participants in the world's industrial network. The
emerging nations bid fair to become the major clients of the world's architects.
Agriculture, fishing and craft permit non-industrialized survival in isolation only
when geographical, geological and ecological circumstances are propitious. These conditions of
independent survival are not characteristic of the emerging lesser developed nations whose lesser
development was initially accounted by their low yield environment.
Participation in industrialization cannot be exclusive due to the idiosyncrasies of the
world’s industrial resource distribution. For example, Ghana is rich in manganese – with no iron
or coal it cannot make steel, without this developed capability manganese is just so much useless
geography. To be useful the manganese will have to be exported to steel-making countries.
Ghana's bounty of bauxite plus the Volta Dam power will make more aluminum than Ghana can
use. This too must be exported. Both will bring Ghana buying power to participate in the
industrialization. Altogether, this means intimate tie-up of all countries with world
industrialization.
At the present point of development of the world industrial network, no one nation is
or can be wholly self-sufficient in those resources necessary to sustain the full industrial process.
The evolution of industry has merged cities, states and nations into complex networks. Full
industrialization.ultimately requires complete integration of world resources effort and wisdom.
Industrialization is successful in direction proportion to the number served. As automation
reduces man's participation in industry as a producer it increases his importance to the total
systems economic efficiency – as a consumer. The larger the system the more economically it
functions – this portends comprehensive world network integrations with ever greater benefit for
all.
The VIII U.I.A. Congress occurs at the critical moment of reorientation of World
Architectural responsibilities.
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Publishing Co., (480 Park Ave., N. Y. 22, N.Y, ), c1959. $12. Very thoroughly illustrated.
Comprehensive review of Fuller inventions & developments. Out of print.
McHale, John: Buckminster Fuller, George Braziller, Inc. (215 Park Ave., S., N. Y. 3, N. Y.). $6.
c1962. Well illustrated. Fuller’s design science strategies & disciplines, his philosophic
tenets and operationally derived mathematical axioms.
BOOKS BY BUCKMINSTER FULLER, ALREADY PUBLISHED OR COMING OUT SOON
Education Automation: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, Carbondale, Ill., c1963. $2.
Comprehensive inventory of suggested planning for net educational system-"Greatest
Industry in History", a. 20-year world forecast of tech-industrial revolution, paperback.
No More Second Hand God, Southern Illinois Univ. Press. Carbondale, Ill., c1963. $4. A
collection of poems and essays. Contains much of B. F. 's fundamental philosophy and
mathematical speculation including some original mathematical discoveries. Calculations
indicate finiteness of both metaphysical and physical universe.
Charles Eliot Norton 1961-62 Lectures at Harvard University, Harvard Univ. Press.
Publ. date, 1966. B. Fuller's lectures as Harvard's Charles Eliot Norton Prof. of
Poetry in alternating co-professorship with Felix Candella of Mexico and Dr. Luigi
Nervi, Italy. Fuller traces historical, socioeconomic, design initiatives.
Ideas and Integrities, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., c1963. Autobiographical
compendium of B. F. 's half-century thought development. Popularly readable.
The Unfinished Epic of Industrialization, Jargon Press of Johnathon Williams' Nantahala
Foundation. c1963. $3.50. Obtain from Heritage Press, 510 W. 4th St. Charlotte,
N. C., paperback, 300-page epic poem, written 1940 before W.W. Two.
Nine Chains to the Moon, Southern Ill. Univ. Press, Arcturus Books Div. $2.45. cl963.
Paperback plus few hard covers in first printing. Orig. printing in 1938 was 5, 000.
Original copies now sell in the range of $25 to $85.
FIVE BOOKS BY FULLER SOON TO BE PUBLISHED BY
MACMILLAN, NEW YORK
Synergetics (formerly En/Syn Geom. ) 1966. Comprehensive mathematical system apparently
employed by nature. Now in completed manuscript worked on by B. F. for quarter of a
century. Co-editors: Prof. Arthur L. Loeb, Math-physicist and Shoji Sadao, illustrations.
Naga to Eden, mid-1967. A new theoretical maritime reconstruction of prehistory.
Past Masters of World Economic Patterns. The evolution of human ecology. Early 1967.
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Design Science -- by means of which democratic man will become a total economic
success on earth. Late 1967.
N. B.: All of the books listed above as published may be obtained from the Gotham Book
Mart, 41 West 47th St., New York City, New York. If any of these are temporarily
or permanently out of print, Gotham Book Mart makes 'a practice of advertising for
second-hand copies and can usually obtain them at small premium.
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